XFS root file system.
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[deleted] · 2022-01-28 19:32

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mazarax · 2022-01-28 19:33

I aspire to be a new BSD user (long time LINUX user) and am in the
process of installing it multiboot on a Haswell PC.

I would like to keep it simple, and just have one filesystem on a
dedicated disk. I thought I would use XFS for that, as that seems a
simple way to use that from Linux as well?

During the install, I get a warning that it is not bootable?

Is XFS as your root supported by FreeBSD?

Thanks!

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trasz · 2022-01-28 19:41

No, it’s not.  Stick with zfs unless you have some good reason not to.

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Morris_Mulberry · 2022-01-28 19:52

FreeBSD only supports UFS and ZFS for root. [XFS has read-only support
through a kernel module](https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=xfs
&sektion=5&apropos=0&manpath=FreeBSD+7.0-RELEASE).