| To: | Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: Bugreport - not really important |
| From: | "Martin K. Petersen" <mkp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | 20 Mar 2001 15:15:26 -0500 |
| Cc: | linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx |
| In-reply-to: | <20010320162043.A12187@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Organization: | Linuxcare, Inc. |
| References: | <Pine.LNX.4.30.0103200223470.2403-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <yq1bsqwr1dh.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <20010320162043.A12187@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Sender: | owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Canyonlands) |
>>>>> "Andi" == Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> writes: >> 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. Andi> This means it is impossible to install lilo on a XFS partition Andi> (as opposed to the MBR) Yeah, well. IRIX people put it there long time ago, and keeping the on-disk format the same is important to us. -- Martin K. Petersen, Principal Linux Consultant, Linuxcare, Inc. mkp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, http://www.linuxcare.com/ SGI XFS for Linux Developer, http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/ |
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