Placing the root partition on an XFS filesystem is not supported

[Eric Sandeen]

On Feb 4, 2012, at 8:29 AM, Marcos Mello <marcosfrm at gmail.com> wrote:

> Richard Scobie <r.scobie <at> clear.net.nz> writes:
> 
>> 
>> Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> 
>>> F16 prevents it?  I didn't see it in the upstream tree.  That should
>>> not be so.  :/
>> 
>> Indeed not. I completed an F16 install 4 days ago, using XFS as the / 
>> filesystem.
>> 
> 
> :-| Well, I'm amlost sure I got the same message when intalling F16 minimal ISO
> last week. Will try again, maybe was just a confusion from my part.
> 
Note, the livecd cannot do an xfs install because it just transfers the (ext4) livecd root to the hard drive.  The non-livecd installer should work though.

-Eric

> Thanks,
> 
> Marcos
> 
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