LVM not fit for Fedora Core
Gilboa Davara
gilboad at gmail.com
Mon Dec 25 10:25:03 UTC 2006
On Sun, 2006-12-24 at 22:29 -0700, Lamont Peterson wrote:
> On Friday 22 December 2006 03:52pm, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 09:32 -0800, John Reiser wrote:
> [snip]
> > -grub- doesn't support LVM.
> > (Same goes for xfs, reiserfs and at least 95 other file systems)
>
> On FC5 (this notebook):
>
> # ls /boot/grub/
> default fat_stage1_5 jfs_stage1_5 reiserfs_stage1_5
> stage2.old
> device.map ffs_stage1_5 menu.lst splash.xpm.gz
> ufs2_stage1_5
> device.map.old grub.conf menu.lst.old stage1
> vstafs_stage1_5
> e2fs_stage1_5 iso9660_stage1_5 minix_stage1_5 stage2
> xfs_stage1_5
>
> I see xfs and reiserfs there. IIRC, both have been present in GRUB at least
> as far back as RHL8.0, though xfs might not have appeared until FC2 (I don't
> remember for sure, but I think it was there earlier).
I stand corrected then.
Last time I tried using boot on xfs (back in FC3) it failed miserably.
(root (hdx,x) failed to detect the stage 1.5)
Never the less, it does not change what I said.
Grub doesn't support software RAID5/6 - should I stop using them?
- Gilboa
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