Re: XFS and /boot

So I guess one thing that would have to happen is a fix for RPM if that hasn't been fixed. Secondly I think I posted a solution it may do the trick courtesy of Steve Lord, I hope that its still valid. Finally lobby the Fedora Core folks to fix this problem.

I usually set /boot to reiserfs and off to the races I go.

Cheers,

	Aly.

Richard Houston wrote:

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.

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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,
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