Re: [Bug 325] New: Corrupted filesystem when using a XFS boot partition

[Jason White <jasonw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 > http://oss.sgi.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=325

 > I'm currently using Conectiva Linux Snapshot, kernel 2.6.3. I set up a XFS 
 > partition as boot 
 > partition with grub. But doing this corrupted the filesystem. Fortunately, I 
 > could fix the 
 > corruption using xfs_recover (but could not boot with that partition even 
 > using it). I searched 
 > grub's bugzilla and found out some reports saying that XFS doesn't support 
 > being used as boot 
 > partition 
 > (http://savannah.gnu.org/search/?words=xfs&type_of_search=bugs&group_id=68&Search=Search&exact=1&max_rows=25).
 >  
 > Is this true or it's some bug within XFS?

http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html#lilowork
applies to grub too. If you install it in the MBR (Master Boot Record)
of the drive, but not in the XFS partition, it will work.