[mythtv-users] CentOS vs Fedora, RAID vs LVM

[John Drescher]

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 2:46 PM, David Brodbeck <gull at gull.us> wrote:
> On Wed, April 1, 2009 11:16 am, John Drescher wrote:
>> BTW, I was not clear about one thing. The OS filesystem is not ext4.
>> Its actually xfs, bad choice for the OS I know.
>
> It's not a terrible choice as long as your bootloader understands it.
>
> The one issue I've found is that you should not run xfs_fsr on a boot
> filesystem if you're using LILO.  It stands a good chance of moving the
> kernel somewhere where LILO can't find it on the next boot.
>

I always setup /boot on a small 256MB  ext2 partition that I only
mount to modify when I need to add a new kernel.

John