xfs filesystem issues in Fedora Core 6?

[Jeremy Hunt]

On 10/28/06, Dan <ml at mutox.org> wrote:
> Hi people,
>
> has anyone attemted an install with xfs in FC6?
>
> I attempted two installs using XFS today, and both failed. I tried on two
> different hard disks just incase one had some issues, but both drives
> behaved in the same manner.
>
> In both cases the install completed without error. However, upon
> rebooting, the console was flooded with I/O error messages indicating that
> reads were failing. Also I could not log in as it seemed so many library
> files were missing.
>
> I later did an install using ext3 as the file system and the system booted
> without issue. In fact this email is being typed on FC6.
>
> It would seem xfs is working in the installer kernels, but not the
> packaged kernels.

I had the exact same experience. I ended up going ext3 as well.

> The kernel is kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 and its running on a Pentium 4
> 2.6GHz with 1GB of ram with hyperthreading not enabled in the bios.
>
> I guess this serves me right for not testing the beta...

Yup, I actually noticed major xfs issues with test1 but didn't file a
bug on it. Now I know better.

-Jeremy