[sles-beta] SLES12 beta3 question concerning XFS boot

[Beddingfield, Allen]

Joe,
I also remember getting burned with XFS systems with no separate /boot, so I've been using the same config you mention.  I will probably keep a more cautious approach and stay with the separate /boot and XFS / for a while, although I'm experimenting with BTRFS here...
Just my $0.02 worth...
Allen B.

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Allen Beddingfield
Systems Engineer
The University of Alabama
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Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2014 8:55 AM
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Subject: Re: [sles-beta] SLES12 beta3 question concerning XFS boot

    Matthias has just given the formal word on this. It can be useful to remember what happened to us in the past.
    Back then we could use XFS for a /boot partition (or no /boot at all, just XFS for /). That worked fine, until we upgraded the kernel. Then, as Matthias points out, grub's rebuilding of initrd could not handle XFS. A dead machine. This particular situation led me to create a separate /boot partition, and to format it as ext2 (non-journalling as grub could not replay the journal to a read-only mount point). Whether grub2 can do such replays is unknown to me at this time. I do use XFS for / and relatives, for now, then move to BTRFS.
    Joe D.

On 01/04/2014 14:22, urs.frey at post.ch<mailto:urs.frey at post.ch> wrote:
Hi

I still have some saying in my ears XFS would not be supported as boot partition.
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.

Thank you very much for your most welcome feedback

Best regards

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