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Re: Bugreport - not really important

To: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
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.
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>>>>> "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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