[Advocacy] Re: 3ware 9650 tips

Bryan J. Smith
2007-07-16T18:43:25Z

[ I removed linux-raid, the only vgers list I posted to (who
re-posted/responded to my post on linux-fsdevel anyway?), from this
response. ]

On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 12:34 -0500, Stuart Levy wrote:
> So they support XFS in Fedora, but not in RHEL??
> (I've been using Fedora...)

Fedora ships support for all filesystems, and I believe has since Fedora
Core 2 / kernel 2.6. RHEL only ships with support for Ext3.

There are various support issues with XFS that I, among others, feel
could be quickly addressed if Red Hat took a keen interest in supporting
XFS as a second, supplemental filesystem to Ext3. I have gone on-record
several times about this, although I've dropped the advocacy over the
last few years and just "given up." I honestly haven't kept up with the
issues either (like issues with XFS and the 4G/4G kernel model and/or
4KiB stacks -- have they been addressed?).

Luckily I have been doing more and more embedded as of late, so I
haven't had to deploy large filesystems. But I have put in a few
Solaris 10/Opteron systems as NFS/SMB file server solutions in the last
year. I'm not saying Solaris is "better," I'm just saying I would
really like RHEL Ext3 with an officially supported XFS release. That's
all.

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