XFS and /boot

[Aly Dharshi]

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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>>>
>>>
>>
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>>Aly Dharshi
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