If big user base is the best way... then we have no worries because ocfs2 1.6 is available on fedora, opensuse, ubuntu and debian.
On 05/13/2011 12:53 PM, Kristian Jörg wrote: > We are using CentOS (based on RHEL5). So this basically means we are stuck > with ocfs2 1.4 forever when it comes to official releases? > But I guess when you release the source code for 1.6 I could try and compile > it myself for CentOS? 1.6 is still GPL right? > > We have been testing ocfs2 since we have been having huge problems with GFS > with the kind of filesystems we have (lots and lots of small files and mostly > read access). Ocfs2 seems to solve all these performance problems and we had > high hopes for it. However the news that 1.6 and forward will not be > available for RHEL/CentOS is bad news. I do hope you will reconsider. A big > user base is the best way to make successful products IMHO. > > /Kristian > > > Sunil Mushran skrev 2011-05-13 18:46: >> Support is a whole different ballgame. I am only talking >> about availability. And I interpreted that qs to be asking >> whether ocfs2 1.6 be available for the standard rhel kernels. >> And the answer is no. It will be available only for uek. >> >> On 05/13/2011 08:34 AM, Fahrenfort, Keith (HP Shared Solutions Architect for >> Oracle) wrote: >>> Hi Sunil, can you clarify - I understood that OCFS2 1.6 on RHEL would be >>> supported, as long as you use RHEL with UEK and an Oracle Support agreement >>> - per MOS note 1253272.1? >>> >>> Thanks! Regards! >>> >>> Keith Fahrenfort >>> Solutions Architect - HP-Oracle Competency Center >>> Americas Shared Solutions Architecture (SSA) >>> Hewlett-Packard Company >>> 281 475 8632 / Tel >>> kei...@hp.com / Email >>> Reach the team at s...@hp.com >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: ocfs2-users-boun...@oss.oracle.com >>> [mailto:ocfs2-users-boun...@oss.oracle.com] On Behalf Of Sunil Mushran >>> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 10:06 AM >>> To: Kristian Jörg >>> Cc: ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com >>> Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 1.6 for RHEL? >>> >>> On 05/13/2011 03:13 AM, Kristian Jörg wrote: >>>> Hello! >>>> >>>> When is it planned ocfs2 1.6 will be available for RHEL? >>>> >>>> /Kristian >>> No plans. Only OL/UEK. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Ocfs2-users mailing list >>> Ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com >>> http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users >> > > _______________________________________________ Ocfs2-users mailing list Ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users
