mounting xfs partitions at install

[Brent Gerig]

In my ks.cfg, I'm defining my partitions as follows:

part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=128
part / --fstype ext3 --size=4096
part /var/opt/ariel/database --fstype xfs --size=2048
part /var --fstype ext3 --size=2048
part swap --size=512
part /var/opt/ariel/audio --fstype xfs --size=100 --grow

One of my custom packages installs a file into the 
/var/opt/ariel/database directory, so it needs to be available at 
install time. However, the xfs partitions are not being mounted during 
the install. I've even tried mounting them manually in the ks.cfg %pre 
section using 'mount /tmp/hda5 /mnt/sysimage/var/opt/ariel/database'. 
Even that attempt at a nasty hack didn't work.

The end result of this problem is that the database file that I need 
isn't there when I reboot unless I _un_mount the partition where it's 
supposed to be.

Does anyone have experience with getting anaconda to mount xfs partitions?

Thanks,
    -Brent

[Brent Gerig]

Brent Gerig wrote:
> In my ks.cfg, I'm defining my partitions as follows:
>
> part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=128
> part / --fstype ext3 --size=4096
> part /var/opt/ariel/database --fstype xfs --size=2048
> part /var --fstype ext3 --size=2048
> part swap --size=512
> part /var/opt/ariel/audio --fstype xfs --size=100 --grow
>
> One of my custom packages installs a file into the 
> /var/opt/ariel/database directory, so it needs to be available at 
> install time. However, the xfs partitions are not being mounted during 
> the install. I've even tried mounting them manually in the ks.cfg %pre 
> section using 'mount /tmp/hda5 /mnt/sysimage/var/opt/ariel/database'. 
> Even that attempt at a nasty hack didn't work.
>
> The end result of this problem is that the database file that I need 
> isn't there when I reboot unless I _un_mount the partition where it's 
> supposed to be.
>
> Does anyone have experience with getting anaconda to mount xfs partitions?
>
> Thanks,
>     -Brent
>
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Well, after fighting with this for an entire day reading through and 
hacking at anaconda source code, I finally managed to figure out the 
root of the problem: xfs isn't in /proc/filesystems. However, I'm still 
stuck as to how to fix this. I've got xfs support on the computer that 
I'm building on, and xfs is definitely in my /proc/filesystems. Where 
does anaconda get this file? I've been unable to figure out how to 
modify it. I'm starting to get frustrated, as this is the last step to 
having a working install cd for me. Any help?

Thanks,
   -Brent