On Friday 07 October 2005 01:51pm, Daniel Spratlen wrote: > On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 09:39 -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote: [SNIP] > > I regularly use XFS as a filesystem for / and /home and other areas > > but because of this bug i always use ext3 for / and really for the use > > of boot and the size of the files in there /boot is much better off > > being on ext3 so i would say make it so /boot has to be ext3. then you > > should only hit this issue if someone decides to forgo a /boot partition > > > > Dennis > > I disagree. XFS can be used as a filesystem for /boot and there is no > reason that Fedora should impose artificial limitations on the use of > XFS. Don't limit the use of a filesystem because GRUB makes some > incorrect assumptions about being able to read a block device image > while a filesystem is mounted and actively being written to. Why not > have anaconda force users who want to use XFS for /boot to setup grub > post install rather than have anaconda not allow /boot to be XFS. Or, better yet, why not fix GRUB to not make such assumptions? -- Lamont R. Peterson <lamont@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Senior Instructor Guru Labs, L.C. [ http://www.GuruLabs.com/ ]
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