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From: "Carlos E. R." <carlos.e.r@opensuse.org>
To: XFS mail list <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: XFS FAQ - out of date?
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 02:47:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55FA0DA2.5050609@opensuse.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55FA0B1D.8000905@troja.ch>

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On 2015-09-17 02:36, Viktor Trojanovic wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just tried to do a fresh install of Arch Linux using XFS for my
> root system. According to the xfs.org FAQ, this is supported. But
> it didn't work.
> 
> I later found (very few) sources that confirmed that Grub is not 
> compatible with the current XFS level 5, that SuSE created a patch
> for the problem but it wasn't adopted upstream. If this is true,
> consider updating the FAQ. If it is not true, I would very much
> appreciate some hints how to do it properly.

I don't know if it is true or not, and I use openSUSE, so I'd have
that patch. However, in the past there have been problems with XFS and
grub, so my routine is to use a separate /boot partition and install
grub there.

- -- 
Cheers / Saludos,

		Carlos E. R.
		(from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)
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  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-17  0:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-17  0:36 XFS FAQ - out of date? Viktor Trojanovic
2015-09-17  0:47 ` Carlos E. R. [this message]
2015-09-17  5:02   ` Gim Leong Chin
2015-09-17  4:06 ` Fanael Linithien
2015-09-17 11:31   ` Viktor Trojanovic

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