Re: XFS and /boot

[Aly Dharshi <aly.dharshi@xxxxxxxxx>]

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.
>
>
>
>
> 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,
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