Placing the root partition on an XFS filesystem is not supported
Marcos Mello
marcosfrm at gmail.com
Fri Feb 3 08:39:55 CST 2012
Eric Sandeen <sandeen <at> sandeen.net> writes:
>
> In general there is no problem with xfs on a root partition. However, the
installer
> may not make it easy or available for you.
>
> (I never use xfs for /boot though, I don't trust grub enough for that
honestly).
>
> -Eric
Same thing on Fedora 16. Let's hope some day Anaconda will change that.
About GRUB with a XFS /boot the problem was with GRUB Lagacy, wasn't it?
Or GRUB2 is still buggy?
Marcos
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