From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay1.corp.sgi.com [137.38.102.111]) by oss.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FA2229DFC for ; Sun, 28 Jul 2013 10:46:04 -0500 (CDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.157.11]) by relay1.corp.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4B458F8037 for ; Sun, 28 Jul 2013 08:46:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from benjamin.baylink.com (rrcs-24-129-180-187.se.biz.rr.com [24.129.180.187]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id ABNB1DfLw3DmLipH for ; Sun, 28 Jul 2013 08:45:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by benjamin.baylink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76CEC1F00362 for ; Sun, 28 Jul 2013 11:45:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from benjamin.baylink.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (benjamin.baylink.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 3dRAAb6J7AbK for ; Sun, 28 Jul 2013 11:45:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from benjamin.baylink.com (benjamin.baylink.com [192.168.253.10]) by benjamin.baylink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F7AF1F00206 for ; Sun, 28 Jul 2013 11:45:54 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 11:45:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Jay Ashworth Message-ID: <22300590.2458.1375026354258.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com> In-Reply-To: <51F4A77A.30502@hardwarefreak.com> Subject: Re: Purpose of the XFS list -- was: A short digression on FOSS (Re: understanding speculative preallocation) MIME-Version: 1.0 List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: xfs@oss.sgi.com ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Stan Hoeppner" > CentOS is a direct clone of RHEL. It uses the RHEL kernel. Thus XFS in > the CentOS kernel is not generally supported on this mailing list. > CentOS (and RHEL) userland XFS tools yes, kernel no. If there were some > other custom distro kernel out there that was non mainline, it wouldn't > get support here either. Like, um, SuSE. Which hasn't used "mainline kernels" in years, if ever. What, exactly, Stan, *is* a mainline kernel? kernel.org kernels? No distribution worth its oats is using those; it isn't just CentOS. > The reason "we" (and I'm not a Red Hat employee, nor a RHEL user) > suggest to CentOS users that they become paying RHEL customers is > obvious: they already use the software and are familiar and presumably > comfortable with it and prefer it. If they pay they get Red Hat support > for XFS in the kernel, along with anything else kernel related. If they > want to continue to use a "no cost" OS and get support on this mailing > list, they must have a distro with a mainline kernel. So the other > obvious option is move to a distro that uses a mainline kernel. They > may also be able to install a mainline kernel on CentOS, as someone > suggested previously. Or, they could use any other distro that isn't RHEL. Or, well, SuSE, if your assertion is actually accurate, which I think it's not, clearly. > Nobody here is aiming guns at CentOS users heads. They have plenty of > support options. It just so happens that using the stock CentOS (RHEL) > kernel isn't one of them. Ok. Got it. Then, since CentOS is the only realistic non-$1200/server/yr distro available, I won't be using XFS anymore. Note that you are pretty wildly violating the spirit of FOSS here. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274 _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs