Has anyone on the list looked at the options with ext3 to improve performance.
My understanding is that changing some of the paramaters... Ie data=ordered and data=writeback options? -Tu -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen John Smoogen Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 6:56 PM To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) Beta releases discussion mailing-list Subject: Re: [rhelv5-beta-list] reiserfs and XFS file system support missing 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-d efault-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 _______________________________________________ rhelv5-beta-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-beta-list
