Anaconda, grub and XFS

[Lamont R. Peterson]

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 at gurulabs.com>
Senior Instructor
Guru Labs, L.C. [ http://www.GuruLabs.com/ ]
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