XFS as File system

[gezza]

Hi to all,
Does anyone have XFS install as their file system?
I tried it on one box and I found 'mylivecd'  gave error "cannot find kernel files".
Have reverted to ext4!!
Your thoughts as always, greatfully received.
Gezza

[djohnston]

Yep. XFS as the only filesystem on three boxes, except for the swap partitions. Used to have to create a boot partition with an alternate filesystem. That's no longer necessary with the newer kernels. However, when installing from the liveCD to hard disk, you need an internet connection. At some point during the install, the GUI asks to download the xfsprogs package. If I remember right, it's just before installing GRUB. So, the two necessary packages are xfs and xfsprogs. You can add xfsdump, if desired.

I tried it on one box and I found 'mylivecd'  gave error "cannot find kernel files".

I don't follow what you mean. Are you trying to install from the liveCD to an XFS partition? Or are you running the mylivecd script from a hard disk installation on an XFS partition?

[gezza]

Yes!
I was running 'mylivecd' from an installed XFS partition.
That was when I got the above error.
I have reverted to ext4 and have no problems now.
Gezza

[djohnston]

Listed are results of mylivecd I just ran from XFS filesystem:

[root@localhost ~]# /usr/sbin/mylivecd --nodir ^/home/darrel,^home/mysql mylivecd.iso
mylivecd, version 0.9.3, http://pclinuxos.com/
Copyright (C) 2010, Texstar <texstar at gmail.com>

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Disabling Services not needed on the LiveCD

running: /sbin/chkconfig --list
running: chkconfig --del atd
running: /sbin/chkconfig --list
running: chkconfig --del crond
running: /sbin/chkconfig --list
running: chkconfig --del syslog
Warning: syslog is needed by script(s) in runlevel 2: shorewall(start) vboxdrv(start) freshclam(start) freshclam(stop)
Warning: syslog is needed by script(s) in runlevel 3: shorewall(start) vboxdrv(start) freshclam(start) freshclam(stop)
Warning: syslog is needed by script(s) in runlevel 4: shorewall(start) vboxdrv(start) freshclam(start) freshclam(stop)
Warning: syslog is needed by script(s) in runlevel 5: shorewall(start) vboxdrv(start) freshclam(start) freshclam(stop)
running: /sbin/chkconfig --list
running: chkconfig --del kheader
running: /sbin/chkconfig --list
running: chkconfig --del xinetd


Creating initrd:                                   [100.00% 00:00:07/00:00:07]
Setting filesystem parameters:                     [100.00% 00:00:45/00:00:45]
Creating compressed image:                         [100.00% 00:27:44/00:27:44]
Creating isolinux boot:                            [100.00% 00:00:00/00:00:00]
Creating final iso:                                [100.00% 00:01:01/00:01:01]
Embedding MD5 checksum:                            [100.00% 00:00:32/00:00:32]
                                                                             
Restoring Services on the installed system

running: chkconfig --add atd
running: chkconfig --add crond
running: chkconfig --add syslog
running: chkconfig --add kheader
running: chkconfig --add xinetd

Created 'mylivecd.iso' (2443,073,536 bytes) in 00:30:20

[root@localhost ~]# ls -l mylivecd.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2443073536 2010-06-23 21:07 mylivecd.iso
[root@localhost ~]#