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> Problem is, I run a dedicated server hosting company, and the majority of my customers either want CentOS 6.x or Debian Stable. Neither can install XFS as the
by chrisbolt 12y ago
> Problem is, I run a dedicated server hosting company, and the majority of my customers either want CentOS 6.x or Debian Stable. Neither can install XFS as the root filesystem
FYI, I've got many machines running Debian Stable (wheezy) with xfs root filesystems, no /boot partition. No problems.
- vacri 12y agoDoes XFS support being /boot now? I remember being tripped up by this many years ago.
- chrisbolt 12y agoIt has since at least squeeze.
- DiabloD3 12y agoDebian can physically boot it fine, Debian-Installer still refuses to actually install it with XFS. Its infuriating, and D-I devs are aware of it. My home server I described? Runs Debian, has XFS root. It clearly works.
- chrisbolt 12y agoDo you have a Debian bug ID? D-I has been doing XFS root installs for me for years now, whether it's interactively with the netinst ISO in VMware or remotely with the debian-installer-netboot package, a DHCP server, and an unattended installer preseed file.
- DiabloD3 12y agoI just tested it again. XFS now works. It did not work the most recent time I tried (within the past 12 months). The only change in my preseed file I made to test the change was the expert_recipe stanza for /, from ext4 filesystem { ext4 } to xfs filesystem { xfs }. Thanks for getting me to test again. One less OS I have to deal with that can't do XFS properly.
- voltagex_ 12y agoI just installed on to a brand new VM from debian-7.8.0-amd64-CD-1.iso. Selected manual partitioning, set a bootable XFS partition, installed and ran fine.