Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1233 mails)

["Quentin Jackson" <Quentin.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 16:22 +0000, Sid Boyce wrote:
> Dave Plater wrote:
> > Stanislav Visnovsky wrote:
> > > On Friday 28 November 2008 06:55:38 Quentin Jackson wrote:
> > >   
> > > > Anyone know why RC1 suddenly says it won't boot if I make /boot and XFS
> > > > partition?  I've been running XFS as a /boot partition since 10.3 with
> > > > no problems and never noticed this message before.  I'm installing now
> > > > and don't know if it will or won't work but will let everyone know.
> > > >
> > > > I presume there is a change in code that has meant this message now
> > > > presents itself?
> > > >     
> > > This is part of our push for bootloader configuration stabilization, there 
> > > are 
> > > quite some more checks for what are corner cases and bad practices.

Thanks, now I know that it is just a message.

> > > AFAIK if you are able to boot on XFS, you are being lucky, as under some 
> > > conditions boot might fail (bootloader code might not fit into the space 
> > > in 
> > > the XFS partition). Thus, YaST will put there a message that /boot 
> > > directory 
> > > has to be on ext2/ext3/reiserfs. It's fine to use XFS on / if you have a 
> > > separate partition for /boot
> > >
> > > You still have an option to install the bootloader on your own.
> > >
> > > HTH
> > >
> > > Stano
> > >
> > >   
> > I am confused, I have a single xfs partition sda1 for root and boot and
> > I haven't experienced any booting problems.
> > Regards
> > Dave P
>
> Same here, perhaps we are the ones called "lucky".
> Regards
> Sid.

Yeah, looks to me like it works more often than not but there may be a
case where it doesn't work.  I think the error message saying it WILL
not work should be changed to MAY not work.  Or perhaps instead of using
one XFS partition and putting /boot and / everything else in it I could
actually make a small /boot partition that isn't XFS.  I switched to XFS
cause I got sick of manually repairing file systems and since switching
about 12 months ago I have not had a single problem on any computer so
I'm reluctant to go back to ext or reiser.  I bet lots of people will
say that don't have any/many problems with ext3 but my experience is
otherwise :)

Thanks for the info everyone!

Q

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