We are a data shop.
nfs v4 support
native XFS support
ext4
Hopefully by 6.4 they will have native brtfs :-)
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Pasi KÃrkkÃinen <pasik@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 03:33:10PM -0500, Kwan Lowe wrote:
>>> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 3:11 PM, John R Pierce <pierce@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> > IBM Power servers since the Power4+ CPU (they are up to Power7 now) have
>>> > hardware partitioning support, commonly known as LPAR. ÂLPAR can be
>>> > divided in units of 1/10th of a CPU. Â The software to manage this is
>>> > now called PowerVM (its been called other names in the past, not all
>>> > polite).
>>> [informative text snipped]
>>>
>>> Yes, it is some nice stuff...
>>>
>>> In particular, having the hardware partitioning capability plays nice
>>> with Oracle licensing. Under KVM or Xen we still have to license the
>>> entire system. ÂThis probably won't change with the newer kvm, but one
>>> can hope.
>>>
>>
>> It's kind of funny since OracleVM *is* Xen, and it's counted as
>> "hardware partitioning" :)
>>
>> -- Pasi
>>
>>> On the Linux side I would like to see how KSM (kernel memory merge)
>>> stacks up against memory compression on the Power7 side. Not sure if
>>> this made it into RHEL6, but hope springs eternal...
>>>
>>> Storage management is always a big issue for me. ÂAIX has some really
>>> great tools for managing disks. In Linux the LUN, block and fs layer
>>> are still relatively decoupled which gives an enormous amount of
>>> flexibility but certain types of changes require multiple commands on
>>> Linux.
>>>
>>> On the desktop side I've been running RHEL6 as my primary environment
>>> since release. Transition was easy. My old kickstart files needed
>>> tweaking, but so far it's been a breeze.
>
> What did you hve to tweak? I noticed the new use of the '%end' flag to
> mark the end of a section, and the new partitioning structure which
> names the LVM based volumes and groups things which contain the
> hostname. (This is a big deal if you have multiple virtual hosts on a
> machihe and want to compare their internal LVM's side by side from the
> virtualization server.)
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