----- Original Message ----- > From: "Stan Hoeppner" <stan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > CentOS is a direct clone of RHEL. It uses the RHEL kernel. Thus XFS in > the CentOS kernel is not generally supported on this mailing list. > CentOS (and RHEL) userland XFS tools yes, kernel no. If there were some > other custom distro kernel out there that was non mainline, it wouldn't > get support here either. Like, um, SuSE. Which hasn't used "mainline kernels" in years, if ever. What, exactly, Stan, *is* a mainline kernel? kernel.org kernels? No distribution worth its oats is using those; it isn't just CentOS. > The reason "we" (and I'm not a Red Hat employee, nor a RHEL user) > suggest to CentOS users that they become paying RHEL customers is > obvious: they already use the software and are familiar and presumably > comfortable with it and prefer it. If they pay they get Red Hat support > for XFS in the kernel, along with anything else kernel related. If they > want to continue to use a "no cost" OS and get support on this mailing > list, they must have a distro with a mainline kernel. So the other > obvious option is move to a distro that uses a mainline kernel. They > may also be able to install a mainline kernel on CentOS, as someone > suggested previously. Or, they could use any other distro that isn't RHEL. Or, well, SuSE, if your assertion is actually accurate, which I think it's not, clearly. > Nobody here is aiming guns at CentOS users heads. They have plenty of > support options. It just so happens that using the stock CentOS (RHEL) > kernel isn't one of them. Ok. Got it. Then, since CentOS is the only realistic non-$1200/server/yr distro available, I won't be using XFS anymore. Note that you are pretty wildly violating the spirit of FOSS here. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@xxxxxxxxxxx Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274 _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
