Re: CentOS5 and XFS

On Friday 16 November 2007, barsalou wrote:
> Quoting Jon Reynolds <jonr@destar.net>:
>
>
> <snip my old stuff
>
> > Mike,
> >
> > Could you have compiled the xfs fs statically into the kernel and not
> > used the initrd?
>
> Sure. but the issue was I needed access to it during the install. So
> that would have meant that I needed to rebuild the entire install disk,
> which is possible.
>
> However, it is fairly painful and I don't like that so much.
>
> So I instead choose to do a temporary install on a smallish (2G)
> partition, then just move everything to the newly created XFS
> partitions.
>
> If I was thinking about it, and I could have probably put the root
> partition on my LV. But I'm done spending time on that part of the
> install. Time to move on!
>
> Once all is running smoothly, I'll probably make the initial partition
> swap or maybe even split it and add the other gig to my LV.
>
> If I was thinking ahead, I could have leveraged that into a backup boot
> partition if I wanted.
>
> :)

Maybe these guys can help.

http://osdir.com/ml/linux.centos.devel/2005-11/msg00023.html

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Greg Madden
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