XFS and /boot

[Aly Dharshi]

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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