Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (581 mails)

[Josef Reidinger <jreidinger@xxxxxxx>]

Rajko M. wrote:
> On Friday 28 November 2008 07:13:35 pm Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > On Saturday, 2008-11-29 at 01:58 +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> > > I had /boot (or / in case of no extra /boot) on XFS for what must have
> > > been two years, too, and can confirm you're just lucky.  As I was during
> > > most of those two years.
> > >
> > > My experience matches Stano's statement:  You may be lucky, you may be
> > > not -- ultimately it's going to hit, so just don't do it. ;-)
> > Perhaps somebody can explain what the problem is, why it is dangerous and
> > they have been lucky, what can/should they do to avoid problems...  ;-)
> >
> > --
> > Cheers,
> >         Carlos E. R.
>
> +1 

OK, here is description why this could cause problems. From sources :)
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html#grubwork

Q: Does GRUB work with XFS?

There is native XFS filesystem support for GRUB starting with version
0.91 and onward. Unfortunately, GRUB used to make incorrect assumptions
about being able to read a block device image while a filesystem is
mounted and actively being written to, which could cause intermittent
problems when using XFS. This has reportedly since been fixed, and the
0.97 version (at least) of GRUB is apparently stable.

JR
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