Re: XFS Root

[Colin Walters <walters@debian.org>]

Michel Dänzer <michdaen@iiic.ethz.ch> writes:

> Hmm, I'm pretty sure I had xfsprogs installed when I started using XFS for the
> root fs here, but it only came up read-only so I changed yaboot.conf. Here's
> the fstab entry:
> 
> /dev/hda11	/		xfs		defaults	0	0
> 
> It's possible that I had 1 or 2 for the last digit at that time, could that
> have been the problem?

I think one problem that people commonly run into is that the default
ext2 options field for / reads:

defaults,errors=remount-ro

or something like that.  But XFS doesn't understand errors=remount-ro,
and barfs (and ironically mounts the FS read-only).  The solution is
to just use "defaults" for the XFS options field.