Re: XFS and /boot

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Thanks for the response. So is there or will there be a fix for this?
Or are we stuck rooting into the rescue mode to fix the boot loader, which
does work by the way.




Regards,
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Aly Dharshi said:
> This is a known problem. It happened all the way back since the SGI XFS
> Redhat 9
> CD. Its to do with RPM:
>
> Steve Lord said on the XFS list:
>
> Now you have hit the bug in rpm in the 9.0 release, it attempts to
> do O_DIRECT but sends a misaligned buffer. You need to run rpm with
> the environment variable LD_ASSUME_KERNEL set to 2.2.5.
>
> Newer rpm packages from rpm.org do not have this problem.
>
> The reason this does not show in normal redhat setups is they have
> O_DIRECT turned off in the kernel. We have it enabled for XFS.
>
>
>
>
> Richard Houston wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Noticed a small issue with XFS file system and the setting up grub on
>> FC3.
>> I have found that if you are using XFS on the /boot partition the
>> installer hangs when trying to install the boot loader. Basically it
>> says
>> installing boot loader and the hour Glass just spins and spins but it
>> never finishes.
>>
>> I found the same issue on FC2. If I install the ext3 on the boot
>> partition
>> there in no issue. I can then have XFS on the / and any other
>> partitions.
>>
>> Any thought or comment or should I just go straight to Bugzilla?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> +------------------------------------------+
>> | Richard Houston                  .^.     |
>> | R.L.H.  Consulting               /V\     |
>> | E-Mail  <rhouston@xxxxxxxx>    /(   )\   |
>> | WWW     <www.rlhc.net>          ^^-^^    |
>> +------------------------------------------+
>>
>>
>
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