-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 27 Feb 2014 15:01:47 -0500 Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 07:43:53AM -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > > I realize that XFS is a difficult pill to swallow for /boot, due to > > your use of syslinux instead of GRUB2. If the Server and Workstation > > groups decide to settle on both using XFS-on-LVM for the main > > partitions, we could *probably* also compromise on using ext4 for > > just /boot. > > Right now, the cloud images are unpartitioned. In some cloud providers > (e.g., the 800lb gorilla of Amazon EC2) we in fact use the kernel that > assumes the image is just one partition, not a disk image. We could > change that (and I kind of want to anyway, for consistency), but it > would be... change. Having a separate /boot is also problematic > (read: wasteful) for ultra-small images, and adds complexity a lot of > users are going to frown at. So..... if by "/boot" you mean "the > partition that /boot happens to be on, even if it is /", then I think > we're good. Otherwise we will have to figure something else out. u-boot has zero support for xfs so arm systems will have to use ext4 for /boot at least as well. which would mean / if users chose to not use a separate /boot partition Dennis -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJTD6dDAAoJEH7ltONmPFDR2vIP/1UwuBljIlxWvuVOYMp1DkSm zj1svbpIDQAsrOyTjVBr/wpGzTN87YdnFjszf86YUaWq75TJqHMC0vEw/zO22ito vK4dkbH0do0FzDlJi0YpQT2tgWh7EY89yDCSrU+NIml0MkFbAeLJMGzpIhCX3eIt FMCi34n6dXNo1XIWSFFC4EINN7NV9ST/NYnOS7VPM49DERiiBDS39HZjNuPuvH0S XjLpwObuLQ8i/kH++U8sBOSticImAgHZ1GWtHjrJdlT3X9SYrgUqcTNhfLJ95iAr bSjm3aCmcZEVtAs8UrVx55wjQzyFaX4Mp3lzrwAVz91NUovY4tj/NVd/I0c1VnQ5 Ra0GgIKAWKukm++f2UM/uxIUgWCC5irC5fCi0vJwa9ZCd+GCoRJ4rhxLAEG0cIkd O0SWkaYDV/oCQmFpYL3hh3X7+dWTTZ7vAFdqxSB88K0NAfCd/C+2Qzg7YMC5UhZb hiY1Zmwx7Unt5jM0FHefuHgQmTuhq9G9VGm+zobLv0BAZTO/FqxUTGxfujg3AtTT f+Vb6h+LuRaNWx/vEdnpeD/21/yWAhl6Sn9XEyB0/Cwc8MTGRZhcKAtaOAq73/sd WcauN2uUO8vGp9T+xwnU47g3zAxbfIMd3fsr5ibMIh3GzX3A+soVy5prg2MDX7FT 0tWptq1/zM+i2AMjRwRQ =KpHb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
