[nzlug] Dell are sooo pwn3d

[Michael Adams]

On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 10:44:48 +1200
Simon wrote:

> On Sat, 2007-06-30 at 03:45 +1200, Michael Adams wrote:
> 
> > http://gnu.org.in/pipermail/gnowsys-dev/2006-August/000156.html
> > "if the xfs support is available as a module, then the root partion
> > cannot be other than ext2/ext3 for these are native to linux
> > kernel."
> > 
> > http://forums.techguy.org/unix-linux/552849-file-systems.html#post4560767
> > 
> > If the above advice has changed, i would be interested to hear it.
> 
> Well, being unable to boot from an XFS partition is different from XFS
> support being *absent*. Perhaps your observation should have read that
> XFS is only supported as a module... which does not provide the
> functionality you desire.
> 
> I was puzzled about this you see, as I have an XFS partition which
> Ubuntu will mount quite happily. Now I see what you mean.
> 
> However... the first link refers to *installing* ubuntu, and suggests
> that the installation can be completed to boot from XFS. (Yuo missed
> out the vital last sentence!) 
> 
> But this is unclear... maybe the thinking is that the installer kernel
> has XFS as a module but the installed kernel may have it compiled in?
> Or maybe that this effect is a quirk of the installer? Unfortunately
> the thread was shut down before further discussion could happen.
> 
> The techguy link suggests that you can boot from XFS if you use LILO
> instead of GRUB.
> > It's not a brilliant idea to use XFS because although the
> > performance is very good you have to have a separate boot partition
> > using something like ext3 in order for grub to work with it
> > otherwise you have to use LILO which is much more difficult to
> > configure.
> > 
> 
> In fact:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub/+bug/8058
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman/+bug/16073
> "We already default to LILO when /boot is on XFS"
> 
> ... seems to be saying that the XFS thing is a GRUB issue and not an
> Ubuntu one.
> 
> Altogether, I think you could have done better...
> 

*Me dons flamesuit*
Ah, religous zealotry. I tried it, it didn't work, i dropped it. As i
said i already have three working XFS boots on this box. It was a
curiosity thing, not a must have.

-- 
Michael
Linux: The OS people choose without $200,000,000 of persuasion.