Re: CentOS5 and XFS

Greg,

Thanks for that. I did try the things suggested in that discussion,
but hand't looked further on that mail list. So, thanks for the link!

Mike B.

Quoting Greg Madden <pabi@gci.net>:

> 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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Received on Wed Nov 21 13:03:13 2007