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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
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: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:40:20 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F2B02C4.8070903@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20120129T133929-288@post.gmane.org>

On 1/29/12 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.

Was done for RHEL, AFAIK.

In general there is no problem with xfs on a root partition.  However, the installer
may not make it easy or available for you.

(I never use xfs for /boot though, I don't trust grub enough for that honestly).

-Eric

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-02-02 21:40 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
2012-01-30 11:19   ` Marcos Mello
2012-02-02 21:40 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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