Re: XFS Root

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

On Sat, 2001-09-29 at 02:20, Colin Walters wrote:
> 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.

That was it, it's now working fine with read-only in yaboot.conf.
Thanks.


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