On Tue, 6 Sep 2011, James Pearson wrote: > I use a custom CentOS 5 installer that will create (and install on) XFS > /boot and / - so it is possible, but does involve patching and > rebuilding anaconda and then rebuilding the installer images (not a > straight forward process). Can you not just do it with a pre script? I'd have thought you could wget mkfs.xfs and do the partition at that stage, then have it not format later on. Or are the partition probing issues? > However, I'm not sure there is much to gain by having XFS /boot and / > file systems No, I wasn't convinced there was either. jh