Posted: July 9, 2007. Tags: Linux
Downloaded latest kernel from kernel.org, currently http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/patch-2.6.20.bz2
cd tar xvfj linux-2.6.20.tar.bz2 cd linux-2.6.20/ make clean make mrproper cp /boot/config-2.6.9-42.ELsmp .config make menuconfig # set XFS support to M make -j6 all make modules_install make install # reboot -j6 refers to degree of parallelism. They recommend 2x # of processors. I like 1.5x.