tar2vm: added xfs note

The issue at hand is the ability to accomodate boot sector payload at the start of the filesystem's underlying block device. XFS doesn't spare that space. Thanks vsu@ for the reminder, by the way.

tar2vm: added xfs note
6c9ca9af · Michael Shigorin · 40743d30 · 6c9ca9af
Commit 6c9ca9af authored Apr 19, 2013 by Michael Shigorin
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@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ DISKSIZE="${3:-${DEFSIZE:-268435456}}"
 DISKSIZEM="$(($DISKSIZE / 1048576))"

 # tested to work: ext[234], jfs
+# NB: xfs doesn't have a spare sector for the bootloader
 ROOTFSTYPE="${4:-ext4}"

 # single root partition hardwired so far,