From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id q13IoJdr153860 for ; Fri, 3 Feb 2012 12:50:19 -0600 Received: from mail.sandeen.net (sandeen.net [63.231.237.45]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id ljpMdCxAAsQ6i6qs for ; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:50:18 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F2C2C69.5020103@sandeen.net> Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:50:17 -0600 From: Eric Sandeen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Placing the root partition on an XFS filesystem is not supported References: <4F2B02C4.8070903@sandeen.net> In-Reply-To: List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Marcos Mello Cc: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com On 2/3/12 8:39 AM, Marcos Mello wrote: > Eric Sandeen 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 > > _______________________________________________ > xfs mailing list > xfs@oss.sgi.com > http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs > _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs