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@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs > _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
