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 EA23329DFA for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:50:02 -0500 (CDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by relay1.corp.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D51B18F8037 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:50:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sandeen.net (sandeen.net [63.231.237.45]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id XmNiomGiLoMmo5d2 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:50:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <51783768.5050508@sandeen.net> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:50:00 -0500 From: Eric Sandeen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: XFS Support in RHEL Server 6.4 x86_64 References: <5177B899.4000707@dermichi.com> In-Reply-To: <5177B899.4000707@dermichi.com> 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: Michael Weissenbacher Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com On 4/24/13 5:48 AM, Michael Weissenbacher wrote: > Hi List! > I was under the impression that XFS was officially supported by Red Hat > Enterprise Linux. > > During the installation i noticed that Anaconda wouldn't allow XFS as > root file system. Well, that's not a big problem for me. But after > installation i realized that they don't even include xfsprogs so that i > could do mkfs.xfs. Well, also not a big problem, i used the latest > tarball and compiled them myself. Which gets you into unsupported land I'm afraid. As others mentioned, it's an add-on product in RHEL6, available w/ a separate subscription. That subscription comes with official RHEL xfsprogs, and support. > But the big question now is: can anybody actually recommend using XFS on > stock RHEL? It does feel like being just a stepchild there. On the other > hand there seem be be quite a number of patches that were backported for > Red Hat's kernel and it does use delaylog by default (which IIRC wasn't > the default with a stock 2.6.32 Kernel). As Ric said, it's very much *not* a stepchild. :) -Eric > tia, > Michael > > _______________________________________________ > xfs mailing list > xfs@oss.sgi.com > http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs > _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs