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From:   Abhas Abhinav <abhas@deeproot.net>
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> I did noticed another thing though - there is a xfs process running after
> booting - and that is the cause of xfs can not be run as /. Since that
> process
> may not be started in time for init to be loaded.....

That is probably the X Font Server (xfs) that ships with RedHat 6.1/GNOME and
is needed for rendering fonts for X.... 

Abhas.