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: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:50:17 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F2C2C69.5020103@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20120203T152753-631@post.gmane.org>
On 2/3/12 8:39 AM, Marcos Mello wrote:
> Eric Sandeen <sandeen <at> sandeen.net> writes:
>
>>
>> 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
>
> Same thing on Fedora 16. Let's hope some day Anaconda will change that.
F16 prevents it? I didn't see it in the upstream tree. That should
not be so. :/
> About GRUB with a XFS /boot the problem was with GRUB Lagacy, wasn't it?
> Or GRUB2 is still buggy?
I have no idea, actually. I delved into grub a bit, it was disturbing
enough that I have not tried to look at grub2. :)
-Eric
> Marcos
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-03 18:50 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
2012-02-03 14:39 ` Marcos Mello
2012-02-03 18:50 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
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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