On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 11:30:47AM -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote:

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Cloud could switch to XFS along with server. The main problem is that it'd make us revisit booting -- either 1) some work into lightening up grub2, 2) testing and possibly enhancing syslinux's xfs support, or 3) a separate /boot with a different filesystem. I don't really love any of those options.

Could you go into more detail about those various issues?

My off-the-cuff guess is that you don't currently plan to use GRUB2 because it's heavyweight for your use-case? So you'd either need to shrink it down or else find a way to allow syslinux to work (either by supporting XFS in it or using a /boot with ext4)?

That's pretty much it. :)