XFS FAQ - out of date?

XFS FAQ - out of date?

[Viktor Trojanovic]

Hi,

I just tried to do a fresh install of Arch Linux using XFS for my root 
system. According to the xfs.org FAQ, this is supported. But it didn't work.

I later found (very few) sources that confirmed that Grub is not 
compatible with the current XFS level 5, that SuSE created a patch for 
the problem but it wasn't adopted upstream. If this is true, consider 
updating the FAQ. If it is not true, I would very much appreciate some 
hints how to do it properly.

Thank you.

Best regards,
Viktor

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Re: XFS FAQ - out of date?

[Carlos E. R.]

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On 2015-09-17 02:36, Viktor Trojanovic wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just tried to do a fresh install of Arch Linux using XFS for my
> root system. According to the xfs.org FAQ, this is supported. But
> it didn't work.
> 
> I later found (very few) sources that confirmed that Grub is not 
> compatible with the current XFS level 5, that SuSE created a patch
> for the problem but it wasn't adopted upstream. If this is true,
> consider updating the FAQ. If it is not true, I would very much
> appreciate some hints how to do it properly.

I don't know if it is true or not, and I use openSUSE, so I'd have
that patch. However, in the past there have been problems with XFS and
grub, so my routine is to use a separate /boot partition and install
grub there.

- -- 
Cheers / Saludos,

		Carlos E. R.
		(from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)
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Re: XFS FAQ - out of date?

[Gim Leong Chin]

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I have openSUSE 13.2 on two computers, both have XFS V5 with CRC enabled on the root partition and home partition.  There are no other partitions other than swap and vFAT for UEFI boot on one of them.  GRUB is in MBR on one and in vFAT for UEFI boot for the new desktop.


Gim Leong

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On 2015-09-17 02:36, Viktor Trojanovic wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just tried to do a fresh install of Arch Linux using XFS for my
> root system. According to the xfs.org FAQ, this is supported. But
> it didn't work.
> 
> I later found (very few) sources that confirmed that Grub is not 
> compatible with the current XFS level 5, that SuSE created a patch
> for the problem but it wasn't adopted upstream. If this is true,
> consider updating the FAQ. If it is not true, I would very much
> appreciate some hints how to do it properly.

I don't know if it is true or not, and I use openSUSE, so I'd have
that patch. However, in the past there have been problems with XFS and
grub, so my routine is to use a separate /boot partition and install
grub there.

- -- 
Cheers / Saludos,

        Carlos E. R.
        (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)
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Re: XFS FAQ - out of date?

[Fanael Linithien]

2015-09-17 2:36 GMT+02:00 Viktor Trojanovic <viktor@troja.ch>:
> I later found (very few) sources that confirmed that Grub is not compatible
> with the current XFS level 5, that SuSE created a patch for the problem but
> it wasn't adopted upstream.

It is merged upstream[1], but last GRUB release was 2.02 beta 2, which
is almost two years old. If you have no qualms about using grub-git
from AUR, there will be no problems with XFS, even with v5 superblock.

[1] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/commit/grub-core/fs/xfs.c?id=b6e80c7778b708c1632d957d00507aad60d9e255

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Re: XFS FAQ - out of date?

[Viktor Trojanovic]

On 17.09.2015 06:06, Fanael Linithien wrote:
> 2015-09-17 2:36 GMT+02:00 Viktor Trojanovic <viktor@troja.ch>:
>> I later found (very few) sources that confirmed that Grub is not compatible
>> with the current XFS level 5, that SuSE created a patch for the problem but
>> it wasn't adopted upstream.
> It is merged upstream[1], but last GRUB release was 2.02 beta 2, which
> is almost two years old. If you have no qualms about using grub-git
> from AUR, there will be no problems with XFS, even with v5 superblock.
>
> [1] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/commit/grub-core/fs/xfs.c?id=b6e80c7778b708c1632d957d00507aad60d9e255

Great, I'll try that. Thanks for replying.

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