[CentOS] centos 5 with xfs root?

[John R Pierce]

On 2/23/2013 3:38 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote:
> 2013/2/23 John R Pierce<pierce at hogranch.com>:
>> >On 2/23/2013 12:51 PM, Joseph Spenner wrote:
>>> >>What if you create a /boot partition as EXT2 or EXT3, and the rest of the partitions as XFS?  I suspect grub would be happy then.
>> >
>> >you'd need to get the xfsutils into the initdr.  I'm not sure thats
>> >feasible.   plus, I don't think the anaconda installer has any ability
>> >to setup an XFS root, so that makes things even more complicated.
> well well, maybe only solution is to setup tiny boot and install base
> system and then just format rest of fs to xfs and move files to it?


yeah, I'd probably just use a relatively small ext4 with / (including 
/usr), then make /var and /home XFS...  if you make extensive use of 
/usr/local and/or /opt, make those XFS too via lvm logical volumes mounted.

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