Hi, On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 12:53 +0100, gordan@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > For some reason, I always worry when people whether something that isn't > production ready _REALLY_ isn't production ready, or whether the > developers are just saying it isn't production ready for fun... > > IIRC, the plan was that it will be ready by RHEL5.1, but additional > critical bugs were discovered, the fixes for which have, to my > knowledge, not made it into the distro yet. > > Gordan > This issue is that the rules for updating RHEL are that we can't put in updates to GFS2 in RHEL 5.1 because GFS2 is a demo feature in 5.1 and we don't want to potentially risk adding bugs by fixing unsupported features. I know that it seems to have been a long time but, I hope, understandably, we are cautious of risking other people's important data on the filesystem until we are sure that we've sorted out all the issues and have been through extensive testing. The net result is that there is a delay between the "appears to work ok" stage and the "this is supported" stage and thats more or less inevitable. Fedora (and rawhide in particular) is there to provide the "bleeding edge" code for testing purposes ahead of the RHEL releases. I know that we've been a bit slow in pushing updates (particularly of the gfs2-utils and cman packages) into Fedora in the past. Thats changing and we should be much better at keeping those uptodate in the future. The gfs2-utils package was recently updated and cman is on the list to be done shortly, Steve. -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
