On 10/3/06, Don MacAskill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I raised this like 4 years ago, and at the time, the ability to switch from SuSE to Red Hat was my biggest gripe. I was on SuSE, and hating it, and wanted to migrate to Red Hat. Surprisingly, Red Hat didn't seem to care. We bit the bullet and did it the hard way, so that's no longer a big issue for us, but I have to imagine it's a good strategic point for SuSE - they can achieve vendor lock-in simply because Red Hat won't even offer an unsupported XFS migration path. These days, though, your #3 and #4 points (dynamic inodes and 8TB limit) are huge for us. Red Hat may very well lose our money as a result, too. Don
Well SuSE looks to be changing what it will be supporting and why it is supporting it. [As a note at the bottom says.. this is a proposal and not definitive..] http://linux.wordpress.com/2006/09/27/suse-102-ditching-reiserfs-as-it-default-fs/ The reason for not going with XFS is exactly what the Red Hat and other groups have said over time. I am guessing that the big things to push for in ext4 development will be dynamic inodes and no 8TB limit. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" _______________________________________________ rhelv5-beta-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-beta-list
