XFS root on Fedora 8AXP install ???

[John Grzesiak]

       Any more info on this ??? If not, it's on my list to make work..

       I am having trouble getting XFS to load properly even after a 
full KERNEL
rebuild.

       I am still looking at that part of the problem. Is anyone else having
strange loader issues, or is this particular to my hardware ??? (AS4100)...

       Hmmm. I suppose that I will need to try it on another platform or two
before making rash conclusions....  I will try it on a 164LX and API CS20....





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Quoting John Grzesiak <johng at pcrd.net>:

>
>
>          The way x86 does it is to boot off an EXT2 (/boot) and to 
> then let the
> INITRD do the mount magic... This allows boot on any filesystem that can be
> modularized.
>
>          All that is required is XFS either in the kernel or a 
> loadable module
> in the INITRD...
>
>          This should work in AXP as well as any other platform since it's
> independent of GRUB or LILO or ABOOT...
>
>          I have discovered that the XFS loadable module won't load at 
> present..
> which is one problem... I am looking for more issues, but, that one is a
> definate fix problem.
>
>          I have a basic EXT3 system running... I will recompile the 
> kernel and
> see if I can't get the XFS module fixed. I will go on from there.
>
>          I still love playing with my Alpha's....
>
>
> -- 
>
>
>
> John Grzesiak
> ---- P.S.T.N. 603.798.4028 ----
>
>
>
> Quoting "Robert M. Riches Jr." <rm.riches at verizon.net>:
>
>>> Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 18:10:19 -0400
>>> From: John Grzesiak <johng at pcrd.net>
>>>
>>>      I am a fan of XFS... I have been using it as a root filesystem 
>>> for most
>>> of my other Linux platforms for a while now. I tried to add it to the
>>> command line as I used to for Fedora 4,5,6 in x86 platform, but, it's
>>> unavailable in the text mode installer... (only thing available at present
>>> on my AS-4100 .. my Matrox and S3Virge cards won't start X...). Has it been
>>> intentionally removed for AXP or is this an oversight ???
>>>
>>>      XFS is what I want.. I have worked with JFS and REISERFS too, 
>>> but, have
>>> too many problems. I managed to get XFS to work really well with most
>>> stuff...  (And I have the secret that gets the delete speed up to snuff
>>> too!)...
>>>
>>>      BTW I was able to use XFS as data partitions all day long in
>>> AC3... very stable for what it's worth...
>>>
>>>      Also, I don't see the LVM selection in the text menu... I sort of like
>>> to use the logical volume with software RAID... It's the easiest 
>>> way to have
>>> your SWAP mirrored... What could be up there  ??
>>
>> I don't know whether Alpha can boot from XFS, but there may
>> be a way to format the filesystem.  At least when I did my
>> last installation on Alpha (around 2002-2003), one of the
>> text consoles (I forget whether it's Alt-Ctrl-F1,
>> Alt-Ctrl-F2, or another one) was a root shell.  On one of my
>> first installations, after Disk Druid had made a terrible
>> mess of my partitions, I used the root shell to redo the
>> partitioning, correctly this time.
>>
>> As soon as the installer boots up, switch to that text
>> console and do your partitioning and formatting there from
>> the command line.  Then, if you're lucky, the installer will
>> let you use the existing partitions and filesystems.
>> There's a slim chance it might even recognize and reformat
>> (empty out) an existing XFS filesystem.
>>
>> One suggestion: Especially for non-X86 architectures that
>> may not have live-CD distributions available, it can be
>> helpful to have multiple Linux installation areas on one
>> machine.  That way, if something breaks fatally in one
>> installation, you can boot up the other installation, mount
>> the broken one's filesystems, and manually fix things up.
>>
>> (I miss my Alpha...)
>>
>> Robert Riches
>> rm.riches at verizon.net
>>
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