default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 11:30:47AM -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> > Cloud could switch to XFS along with server. The main problem is
> > that it'd make us revisit booting -- either 1) some work into
> > lightening up grub2, 2) testing and possibly enhancing syslinux's
> > xfs support, or 3) a separate /boot with a different filesystem. I
> > don't really love any of those options.
> Could you go into more detail about those various issues?
> 
> My off-the-cuff guess is that you don't currently plan to use GRUB2
> because it's heavyweight for your use-case? So you'd either need to
> shrink it down or else find a way to allow syslinux to work (either by
> supporting XFS in it or using a /boot with ext4)?

That's pretty much it. :)



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