Re: XFS root on Fedora 8AXP install ???

[John Grzesiak <johng pcrd net>]

      Any more info on this ??? If not, it's on my list to make work..

      I am having trouble getting XFS to load properly even after a 
full KERNEL
rebuild.

      I am still looking at that part of the problem. Is anyone else having
strange loader issues, or is this particular to my hardware ??? (AS4100)...

      Hmmm. I suppose that I will need to try it on another platform or two
before making rash conclusions....  I will try it on a 164LX and API CS20....





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Quoting John Grzesiak <johng pcrd net>:

>          The way x86 does it is to boot off an EXT2 (/boot) and to 
> then let the
> INITRD do the mount magic... This allows boot on any filesystem that can be
> modularized.
>
>          All that is required is XFS either in the kernel or a 
> loadable module
> in the INITRD...
>
>          This should work in AXP as well as any other platform since it's
> independent of GRUB or LILO or ABOOT...
>
>          I have discovered that the XFS loadable module won't load at 
> present..
> which is one problem... I am looking for more issues, but, that one is a
> definate fix problem.
>
>          I have a basic EXT3 system running... I will recompile the 
> kernel and
> see if I can't get the XFS module fixed. I will go on from there.
>
>          I still love playing with my Alpha's....
>
>
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>
> John Grzesiak
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>
>
>
> Quoting "Robert M. Riches Jr." <rm riches verizon net>:
>
> > > Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 18:10:19 -0400
> > > From: John Grzesiak <johng pcrd net>
> > >
> > >      I am a fan of XFS... I have been using it as a root filesystem 
> > > for most
> > > of my other Linux platforms for a while now. I tried to add it to the
> > > command line as I used to for Fedora 4,5,6 in x86 platform, but, it's
> > > unavailable in the text mode installer... (only thing available at present
> > > on my AS-4100 .. my Matrox and S3Virge cards won't start X...). Has it been
> > > intentionally removed for AXP or is this an oversight ???
> > >
> > >      XFS is what I want.. I have worked with JFS and REISERFS too, 
> > > but, have
> > > too many problems. I managed to get XFS to work really well with most
> > > stuff...  (And I have the secret that gets the delete speed up to snuff
> > > too!)...
> > >
> > >      BTW I was able to use XFS as data partitions all day long in
> > > AC3... very stable for what it's worth...
> > >
> > >      Also, I don't see the LVM selection in the text menu... I sort of like
> > > to use the logical volume with software RAID... It's the easiest 
> > > way to have
> > > your SWAP mirrored... What could be up there  ??
> >
> > I don't know whether Alpha can boot from XFS, but there may
> > be a way to format the filesystem.  At least when I did my
> > last installation on Alpha (around 2002-2003), one of the
> > text consoles (I forget whether it's Alt-Ctrl-F1,
> > Alt-Ctrl-F2, or another one) was a root shell.  On one of my
> > first installations, after Disk Druid had made a terrible
> > mess of my partitions, I used the root shell to redo the
> > partitioning, correctly this time.
> >
> > As soon as the installer boots up, switch to that text
> > console and do your partitioning and formatting there from
> > the command line.  Then, if you're lucky, the installer will
> > let you use the existing partitions and filesystems.
> > There's a slim chance it might even recognize and reformat
> > (empty out) an existing XFS filesystem.
> >
> > One suggestion: Especially for non-X86 architectures that
> > may not have live-CD distributions available, it can be
> > helpful to have multiple Linux installation areas on one
> > machine.  That way, if something breaks fatally in one
> > installation, you can boot up the other installation, mount
> > the broken one's filesystems, and manually fix things up.
> >
> > (I miss my Alpha...)
> >
> > Robert Riches
> > rm riches verizon net
> >
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