ext2->ext3

[Brett I. Holcomb]

Yup, LILO works here fine on an all XFS system.  I had a power outage that 
took down my WS 3.1 system with ext2.  Took over 30 minutes to fsck 
everything.  The time I had to restart the XFS system (which has much 
larger partitions) was a few seconds.  


> 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.

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