XFS and /boot

Richard Houston rhouston at rlhc.net
Wed Nov 10 20:13:19 UTC 2004


Yeah, I have been using ext3 for the boot partition and all is good as
well. I have posted a bug in bugzilla. I feel that is needs to be fixed
either way. Would be nice to have fixed.

Thanks guys and keep up the good work.




Regards,
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Aly Dharshi said:
> So I guess one thing that would have to happen is a fix for RPM if that
> hasn't
> been fixed. Secondly I think I posted a solution it may do the trick
> courtesy of
> Steve Lord, I hope that its still valid. Finally lobby the Fedora Core
> folks to
> fix this problem.
>
> I usually set /boot to reiserfs and off to the races I go.
>
> Cheers,
>
> 	Aly.
>
> Richard Houston wrote:
>> Thanks for the response. So is there or will there be a fix for this?
>> Or are we stuck rooting into the rescue mode to fix the boot loader,
>> which
>> does work by the way.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> +------------------------------------------+
>> | Richard Houston                  .^.     |
>> | R.L.H.  Consulting               /V\     |
>> | E-Mail  <rhouston at rlhc.net>    /(   )\   |
>> | WWW     <www.rlhc.net>          ^^-^^    |
>> +------------------------------------------+
>>
>> Aly Dharshi said:
>>
>>>This is a known problem. It happened all the way back since the SGI XFS
>>>Redhat 9
>>>CD. Its to do with RPM:
>>>
>>>Steve Lord said on the XFS list:
>>>
>>>Now you have hit the bug in rpm in the 9.0 release, it attempts to
>>>do O_DIRECT but sends a misaligned buffer. You need to run rpm with
>>>the environment variable LD_ASSUME_KERNEL set to 2.2.5.
>>>
>>>Newer rpm packages from rpm.org do not have this problem.
>>>
>>>The reason this does not show in normal redhat setups is they have
>>>O_DIRECT turned off in the kernel. We have it enabled for XFS.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Richard Houston wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi all,
>>>>
>>>>Noticed a small issue with XFS file system and the setting up grub on
>>>>FC3.
>>>>I have found that if you are using XFS on the /boot partition the
>>>>installer hangs when trying to install the boot loader. Basically it
>>>>says
>>>>installing boot loader and the hour Glass just spins and spins but it
>>>>never finishes.
>>>>
>>>>I found the same issue on FC2. If I install the ext3 on the boot
>>>>partition
>>>>there in no issue. I can then have XFS on the / and any other
>>>>partitions.
>>>>
>>>>Any thought or comment or should I just go straight to Bugzilla?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Regards,
>>>>+------------------------------------------+
>>>>| Richard Houston                  .^.     |
>>>>| R.L.H.  Consulting               /V\     |
>>>>| E-Mail  <rhouston at rlhc.net>    /(   )\   |
>>>>| WWW     <www.rlhc.net>          ^^-^^    |
>>>>+------------------------------------------+
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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