<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442460038059_14638" dir="ltr">I have openSUSE 13.2 on two computers, both have XFS V5 with CRC enabled on the root partition and home partition. There are no other partitions other than swap and vFAT for UEFI boot on one of them. GRUB is in MBR on one and in vFAT for UEFI boot for the new desktop.<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442460038059_14653" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442460038059_14654" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442460038059_14711" dir="ltr">Gim Leong<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442460038059_14387"><span></span></div><br> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442460038059_14356" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442460038059_14355" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442460038059_14354" dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Carlos E. R. <carlos.e.r@opensuse.org><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> XFS mail list <xfs@oss.sgi.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, 17 September 2015, 8:47<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: XFS FAQ - out of date?<br> </font> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442460038059_14697" class="y_msg_container"><br>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br clear="none">Hash: SHA1<br clear="none"><br clear="none">On 2015-09-17 02:36, Viktor Trojanovic wrote:<br clear="none">> Hi,<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> I just tried to do a fresh install of Arch Linux using XFS for my<br clear="none">> root system. According to the xfs.org FAQ, this is supported. But<br clear="none">> it didn't work.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> I later found (very few) sources that confirmed that Grub is not <br clear="none">> compatible with the current XFS level 5, that SuSE created a patch<br clear="none">> for the problem but it wasn't adopted upstream. If this is true,<br clear="none">> consider updating the FAQ. If it is not true, I would very much<br clear="none">> appreciate some hints how to do it properly.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I don't know if it is true or not, and I use openSUSE, so I'd have<br clear="none">that patch. However, in the past there have been problems with XFS and<br clear="none">grub, so my routine is to use a separate /boot partition and install<br clear="none">grub there.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">- -- <br clear="none">Cheers / Saludos,<br clear="none"><br clear="none"> Carlos E. R.<br clear="none"> (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)<br clear="none">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----<br clear="none">Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux)<br clear="none"><br clear="none">iEYEARECAAYFAlX6DaAACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UlKQCbB4lfGsxqm/Niq6isjNqGn/Bi<br clear="none">n4EAn3t5NgIumeMwgrEnDxd18rPSoOGY<br clear="none">=Jufm<br clear="none">-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----<div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yqt8629158387" id="yqtfd55324"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">xfs mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:xfs@oss.sgi.com" href="mailto:xfs@oss.sgi.com">xfs@oss.sgi.com</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs" target="_blank">http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs</a><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>