Re: linux xfs

[John Hodrien <J.H.Hodrien@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 6 Sep 2011, James Pearson wrote:

> I use a custom CentOS 5 installer that will create (and install on) XFS
> /boot and / - so it is possible, but does involve patching and
> rebuilding anaconda and then rebuilding the installer images (not a
> straight forward process).

Can you not just do it with a pre script?  I'd have thought you could wget
mkfs.xfs and do the partition at that stage, then have it not format later on.
Or are the partition probing issues?

> However, I'm not sure there is much to gain by having XFS /boot and /
> file systems

No, I wasn't convinced there was either.

jh
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