XFS Support in RHEL Server 6.4 x86_64

XFS Support in RHEL Server 6.4 x86_64

[Michael Weissenbacher]

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.

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).

tia,
Michael

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Re: XFS Support in RHEL Server 6.4 x86_64

[James Braid]

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On 24 April 2013 11:48, Michael Weissenbacher <mw@dermichi.com> wrote:

> 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).
>

It's an addon product and not supported as a root filesystem on RHEL 6:

http://www.redhat.com/products/enterprise-linux-add-ons/file-systems/

A number of the XFS developers are employed by Red Hat...

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Re: XFS Support in RHEL Server 6.4 x86_64

[Ric Wheeler]

On 04/24/2013 11:00 AM, James Braid wrote:
>
> On 24 April 2013 11:48, Michael Weissenbacher <mw@dermichi.com 
> <mailto:mw@dermichi.com>> wrote:
>
>     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).
>
>
> It's an addon product and not supported as a root filesystem on RHEL 6:
>
> http://www.redhat.com/products/enterprise-linux-add-ons/file-systems/
>
> A number of the XFS developers are employed by Red Hat...
>
>

And it is the only file system in RH Storage (gluster) that we support and quite 
popular with normal RHEL users as well.

Definitely not ignored in any way.

If you have questions about how to get it, let me know.

Regards,

Ric

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Re: XFS Support in RHEL Server 6.4 x86_64

[Eric Sandeen]

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
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Re: XFS Support in RHEL Server 6.4 x86_64

[Michael Weissenbacher]

Thanks for your answers, it's much clearer now!

Michael

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Re: XFS Support in RHEL Server 6.4 x86_64

[Ric Wheeler]

On 04/25/2013 03:31 AM, Michael Weissenbacher wrote:
> Thanks for your answers, it's much clearer now!
>
> Michael

A very belated follow up, but we just announced this week that RHEL7 plans to 
use XFS as its default file system and will not be restricted (you can use it 
there for boot, root or whatever).

Thanks!

Ric


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