[sles-beta] SLES12 beta3 question concerning XFS boot

[Matthias G. Eckermann]

Hello Urs and all,

On 2014-04-01 T 13:22 +0000 urs.frey at post.ch wrote:
 
> I still have some saying in my ears XFS would not be
> supported as boot partition.

this was and remains correct for SLE 11, as the grub1
bootloader does not successfully interacts with xfs
in all situations. For SLE 12, we have grub2 now, and
thus:

> I was looking in book.sle.admin.pdf, GRUB2 and did
> also some googling, noting found yet When testing
> SLES12 Beta3 XFS on /boot, GRUB2 in MBR I can boot
> without problems
> 
> So I assume XFS as boot partition /boot, GRUB2 in MBR
> is supported.

Yes, xfs is supported "everywhere" in SLE 12, including
/boot.

Our recommended filesystem for the OS is btrfs though,
as detailed in the presentation 3 weeks ago.
 
> Thank you very much for your most welcome feedback

HTH -
	MgE

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