Re: XFS worth it?

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Subject: Re: XFS worth it?
From: Juergen Kreileder <jk@blackdown.de>
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 01:24:19 +0200
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Brian D. Winters <brianw-debian@pteranodon.org> writes:

>> * Grub cannot boot from XFS on AMD64.
>
> Works fine here.  I have an Opteron and two Athlon64's all booting
> grub from XFS. 

IIRC, the problem with GRUB's XFS support is that it doesn't handle
fragmented files properly.  If the kernel image has any holes in it,
GRUB won't load it.  (I hit this problem with yaboot which virtually
uses the same XFS code as GRUB.)

You can check for holes in files with xfs_bmap and defragment them
with xfs_fsr.

        Juergen

-- 
Juergen Kreileder, Blackdown Java-Linux Team
http://blog.blackdown.de/

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- XFS worth it?
  - From: Thomas Steffen <steffen.list.account@gmail.com>
- Re: XFS worth it?
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