I tried installing Red Hat 7.1+XFS on a bare Compaq server, and when it was
all over, I got nothing that functioned.
The machine:
ProLiant 6400 (4x PII Xeon 450 w. 2MB cache)
4GB RAM
SmartArray 3200 array controller (raid 5)
Voodoo 5
The install process went smoothly, but there were numerous "no such file or
directory" errors on reboot. When it eventually hit a login prompt, none of
the filesystems which had been marked as XFS seemed to be present (/boot was
left as ext2).
I've heard that there might be a block size issue with XFS supporting only
4k blocks and the Compaq Array controller supporting only 1k blocks. But I
don't know if that's the issue here.
A couple of other questions:
1) according to the installer, you seem to be able to create a 100% XFS
system, but there's no mention of whether or not LILO has to go into the MBR
to support this. is this still true?
2) many people have recommended leaving /boot as ext2, is this still
advisable?
Thanks!
michael
Michael J. Venables
Compaq Competitive Analysis
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