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 q170XoOM178265 for ; Mon, 6 Feb 2012 18:33:50 -0600 Received: from greer.hardwarefreak.com (mo-65-41-216-221.sta.embarqhsd.net [65.41.216.221]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id ACgWIsMqtaxPGOOX for ; Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:29:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.100.53] (gffx.hardwarefreak.com [192.168.100.53]) by greer.hardwarefreak.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28B646C058 for ; Sun, 5 Feb 2012 21:29:37 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <4F2F4925.5020406@hardwarefreak.com> Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:29:41 -0600 From: Stan Hoeppner MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Placing the root partition on an XFS filesystem is not supported References: <4F2B02C4.8070903@sandeen.net> <4F2C2C69.5020103@sandeen.net> <20120206001123.GJ6922@dastard> <4F2F1B28.3060308@sandeen.net> <20120206015430.GK6922@dastard> <4F2F33A8.1050403@sandeen.net> In-Reply-To: <4F2F33A8.1050403@sandeen.net> Reply-To: stan@hardwarefreak.com 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: xfs@oss.sgi.com On 2/5/2012 7:58 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote: > On 2/5/12 7:54 PM, Dave Chinner wrote: >> Oh, grub2 does worse things than that - grub_probe mounts any device >> that appears to have a valid superblock so it can find out what >> devices it needs to list in it's boot menu. I found this out when I >> built a big DM stripe out of disks that used to have filesystems on >> them. grub-probe mounted every single device -inside- the stripe >> and ran log recovery on them, corrupting the new filesystem and >> quite a bit of data on the DM stripe they were part of.... > > Ok, your horror story wins from a pain POV ;) What's the default bootloader of RHEL/Fedora? I'm not asking rhetorically. I've never used either, and I'm curios if Red Hat went the grub/grub2 route like SuSE and many/most other distros. I use strictly Debian/LILO myself. I was quite relieved when they decided not to throw LILO out of the distro. Apparently it had been abandoned upstream. Luckily another dev took ownership at the last minute. -- Stan _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs