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