[CentOS] linux xfs

Tue Sep 6 16:18:56 UTC 2011
James Pearson <james-p at moving-picture.com>

John Hodrien wrote:
> 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?

I wanted to add XFS as an available filesystem using the standard 
installer menu items for others to use.

James Pearson