From: Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>
To: Marcos Mello <marcosfrm@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Placing the root partition on an XFS filesystem is not supported
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:12:03 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F265EE3.6020908@hardwarefreak.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20120129T133929-288@post.gmane.org>
On 1/29/2012 6:46 AM, Marcos Mello wrote:
> http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=anaconda.git;a=commit;h=b3e19d43840f6c4015fab75411853003fcf26a63
>
> Does someone knows why? I'm trying to get rid of EXT* partitions on my new
> CentOS 6.2 installs but apparently it will not be possible.
I'm unsure what this Fedora commit is all about, but in the general
Linux case you can put root on XFS, with a minor caveat. See:
http://www.xfs.org/index.php/XFS_FAQ#Q:_Can_XFS_be_used_for_a_root_filesystem.3F
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Stan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-30 9:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-29 12:46 Placing the root partition on an XFS filesystem is not supported Marcos Mello
2012-01-30 9:12 ` Stan Hoeppner [this message]
2012-01-30 11:19 ` Marcos Mello
2012-02-02 21:40 ` Eric Sandeen
2012-02-03 14:39 ` Marcos Mello
2012-02-03 18:50 ` Eric Sandeen
2012-02-06 0:11 ` Dave Chinner
2012-02-06 0:13 ` Eric Sandeen
2012-02-06 1:54 ` Dave Chinner
2012-02-06 1:58 ` Eric Sandeen
2012-02-06 3:29 ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-02-06 10:44 ` Marcos Mello
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2012-02-04 4:17 Richard Scobie
2012-02-04 14:29 ` Marcos Mello
2012-02-05 0:47 ` Eric Sandeen
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