Warning about XFS for GRUB2?

[ghost]

About the iso testing4: It's my own ignorance which drives me to the question: should there be a warning about XFS if you are planning to use XFS as a root filesystem? Grub can simply not boot this.

Or should I have known this? :-)
Regards,
Marco

[Ratler]

It's a fair question to ask. Lunar have never been a distribution that holds your hand along the way, it does expect that you do know a few things. But in this case I actually believe we could throw in a warning if you try to install on / or /boot without a supported filesystem by the boot loader of choice.

I'll add this as an improvement to the installer.

[v4hn]

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We do have a lot of problems in lunar, but in my opinion this is none of them.
If you try to use xfs as /, you will learn that this is not a good idea.
If someone has spare time to work on that, the work would be much better spent with one of the issues in https://github.com/lunar-linux/lunar
(This of course doesn't mean that useful merge requests will be ignored if you decided to spend time on this issue)

[Ratler]

By adding EFI we add even more issues regarding choice of fs and partition type. Either way we need to add a few checks, they should be trivial to add. But I fully support working on the issues in our core tools as well, any of our developer can take an issue and hack away actually :)

[ghost]

Or just a simple note regarding the filesystem usage in the iso README? Just a thought.