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Re: [RFD] Support for installing on XFS partition?


From: Daniel Kiper
Subject: Re: [RFD] Support for installing on XFS partition?
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 21:30:05 +0100
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On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 12:16:20PM +0300, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
> Syslinux MBR supports booting off XFS partition by adjusting PBR offset
> (see
> http://repo.or.cz/syslinux.git/commit/4298786ca19e9121568ecd4cc8b79d276ccfd24a).
> Is it worth to support? This can only work if Syslinux MBR is actually
> installed, so it would give false sense success in all other cases. OTOH
> this could enable chainloading off XFS by explicitly loading PBR from
> this offset using - probably, any - bootloader.

Make sense for me. However, I was not able to find anything/doc/spec which
says that 4th sector is used for PBR in XFS. Could you point such thing?
I would like to have some more details about that.

Daniel



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