From: Marcos Mello <marcosfrm@gmail.com>
To: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Placing the root partition on an XFS filesystem is not supported
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:19:39 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20120130T120943-158@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4F265EE3.6020908@hardwarefreak.com
Stan Hoeppner <stan <at> hardwarefreak.com> writes:
>
> On 1/29/2012 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.
>
> I'm unsure what this Fedora commit is all about, but in the general
> Linux case you can put root on XFS, with a minor caveat. See:
>
> http://www.xfs.org/index.php/XFS_FAQ#Q:_Can_XFS_be_used_for_a_root_filesystem.3F
>
Yeah, some time ago I run XFS as my / on Arch. But Anaconda doesn't allow it
now. So we're still forced to have an EXT partition for the root filesystem in
the Red Hat land.
Found this
http://pastebin.com/gHqGGkSp
Marcos
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-30 11:19 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 [this message]
2012-02-02 21:40 ` Eric Sandeen
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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