Eero Volotinen wrote: > Hi List, > > Is it possible to install centos 5 with xfs root and how to do it?
Yes it is possible - we've been doing just that for years (and with centos 4 before that). The method we use involves using a modified installer (anaconda) Anaconda for RHEL/centos 5 already has support for XFS - but the bits that allow for XFS plus XFS on root (and /boot) are disabled - so in simple terms, it is just a case of patching anaconda to allow XFS to be selected and used on the root file systems, adding in the various xfs_utils apps to the list of apps added to the install image (plus having the xfs_utils RPM available), then rebuilding the anaconda RPM and finally rebuilding the installer image Grub will work with XFS /boot - but I had to add a further hacks to anaconda to get this to work reliably - it is much better to use ext2|3 as /boot and still have XFS as the root file system Of course, none of the above is straight forward or easy :-) However, I'm not sure there is much to gain by having XFS root and (and/or /boot) file systems James Pearson _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
