On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 12:00 +0100, James Pearson wrote: > On 10/7/05, Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 17:24 +0100, James Pearson wrote: > > > There has been an on going issue with installing grub on an XFS > > > partition - anaconda will hang at the installing boot loader stage as > > > grub 'spins'. > > > > > > The attached patch for 'booty' works round this problem by remounting > > > the XFS file system that contains /boot as read-only and then as > > > read-write before running the grub install command. > > > > > > This patch replaces the current XFS freeze/thaw work round that fails to > > > work (a lot) more often than not. > > > > This feels like a hack for the fact that xfs_freeze doesn't work as it > > was designed to -- it is specifically for things which need the contents > > on disk to actually be what the kernel thinks is there. And the > > continued need of random hacks like this make me more and more inclined > > to just disallow the use of XFS as a bootable filesystem. > > But this is a 'hack' that replaces a 'hack' that doesn't work ... so > the total number of hacks in anaconda won't increase :-) Yes, but it's a hack that was added at the explicit request of the XFS developers with a "this will fix the problems". And having to constantly change it because they don't want to have the same semantics as all of the other filesystems which are even pseudo-supported is a waste of time. Jeremy
