LILO has no problems with XFS. Grub supposedly is ok with it, but since i don't (and never will) use GRUB, i can't confirm that.
You are, of course, free to use what you like, but i want my data, and i want it now, so i use XFS. On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Matthew Carpenter wrote: > How many stock bootloaders like XFS these days? That's been one of the bigger >problems with switching filesystems in the past. I'd have to have an older boot >partition and store data on the new FS... Which still causes problems since the >system and config is not on the super-duper filesystem. > And I'm sorry, but I am still of the opinion that for my purposes I am better off >using as much distro-stock as possible. > > > begin "David A. Bandel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > (Fri, 20 Dec 2002 11:42:22 -0500) > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 08:32:31 -0500 (EST) > > begin Net Llama! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed forth: > > > > > On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Andrew Mathews wrote: > > > > Tom Wilson wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > > > I got me a shiny new PC last week. I am in process of backing up > > > > > the data off my old pc to get it ready for the new. > > > > > > > > > > I was going to install Linux w/ ext3 filesystem on the new pc, the > > > > > old one has ext2. Can I restore to the new if it is ext3? Or to I > > > > > have to install it as ext2, restore my backups, then convert to > > > > > ext3? > > > > > > > > > > TIA, > > > > > > > > > > > > > You'll have to convert it to XFS first, at which time you'll decide to > > > > keep it that way. ;) > > > > > > Indeed. > > > > > > > Seriously, you should have no problems copying your files from ext2 to > > > > ext3 as 3 is simply 2 with a journal. What distro are you planning on > > > > using? > > > > > > Also matters how the data is backed up. But if you're going to go > > > through the time in restoring from backup to a new box, you might as > > > well do it on a reliable filesystem, namely, XFS. > > > > Well, I just went through my first major XFS problem. Let me just say XFS > > performed beautifully. If it were ext2, I'd have been rebuilding the > > system. > > > > Seems some morons from the power company decided to replace main lines in > > a building without telling anyone. Well, the resulting spikes fried a > > monitor and scrambled the Linux system. It wouldn't boot (lots of errors > > about not being able to run /sbin/getty, etc.). > > > > Booted into Knoppix and tried to mount the partition -- it froze. > > Rebooted, ran xfs_check. What a mess, but it fixed a lot of stuff. > > Mounted the partition (the journal played and restored things just fine). > > umounted the partition and ran xfs_repair. Lots more fixing. Rebooted > > and things seem to be even better than before (if that's possible). > > > > XFS came through with flying colors. Not sure any others (and definitely > > not ext2) would have. > > > > BTW, all the above took less than 5 minutes including booting into Knoppix > > twice. The partition was 6Gb. That's fast. > > > > Ciao, > > > > David A. Bandel > > - -- > > Focus on the dream, not the competition. > > -- Nemesis Racing Team motto > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > > > > iD8DBQE+A0hu3uVcotqGMQcRApI/AKDjyBy9mK7yQL98mqiUMTfglRr7HgCeI/OI > > LIqI4aQqyhSwGJzvFoMqw1Y= > > =3SGs > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux-users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > > > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
