Re: Bugreport - not really important

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 08:55:22AM -0500, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> >>>>> "Tom" == Tom Duffy <tduffy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> Tom> what I am surprised about is that xfs did not replace the magic
> Tom> number that tells the kernel and other tools what type of fs it
> Tom> is.  otherwise, the reiser tools do not verify this number (or
> Tom> assume it could be corrupted).
> 
> The problem here is that every fs puts its superblock a different
> place.  XFS has it on block 0, and reiserfs' is 64K from the beginning
> of the device.

This means it is impossible to install lilo on a XFS partition (as opposed 
to the MBR) 


-Andi