Anaconda, grub and XFS

[James Pearson]

On 10/7/05, Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 17:24 +0100, James Pearson wrote:
> > There has been an on going issue with installing grub on an XFS
> > partition - anaconda will hang at the installing boot loader stage as
> > grub 'spins'.
> >
> > The attached patch for 'booty' works round this problem by remounting
> > the XFS file system that contains /boot as read-only and then as
> > read-write before running the grub install command.
> >
> > This patch replaces the current XFS freeze/thaw work round that fails to
> > work (a lot) more often than not.
>
> This feels like a hack for the fact that xfs_freeze doesn't work as it
> was designed to -- it is specifically for things which need the contents
> on disk to actually be what the kernel thinks is there.  And the
> continued need of random hacks like this make me more and more inclined
> to just disallow the use of XFS as a bootable filesystem.

But this is a 'hack' that replaces a 'hack' that doesn't work ... so
the total number of hacks in anaconda won't increase :-)

Anyway, as suggested, I've submitted a bug/rfe (#170127)

Thanks

James Pearson