Joe (Mobile) schrieb: > [...] > Usually my server filesystem of choice is XFS (most servers being > Fedora), since ext3 has a very poor performance with large directories > as well as with some tasks like error recovery and formatting. Also > the size limitations of ext3 (the backup server is a x86 system) make > it pretty much impossible to use for this setup. Thus I'd like to > operate the array with XFS, but I could not find any mention of XFS > being available on RHEL5. > > So my question: are there official XFS packages (kernel module and > tools) available for RHEL5? And if not, where could I get them and how > could I install them? Or is there any alternative filesystem included > with RHEL5 that can safely handle so much data? [...]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=213744 HP is asking Red Hat to enable XFS in RHEL 5 to support large filesystems i assume ext4 will be redhats (lately) answer for rhel6 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4 rawhide: # modinfo ext4dev filename: /lib/modules/2.6.24-0.42.rc3.git1.fc9/kernel/fs/ext4/ext4dev.ko license: GPL description: Fourth Extended Filesystem with extents author: Remy Card, Stephen Tweedie, Andrew Morton, Andreas Dilger, Theodore Ts'o and others depends: mbcache,jbd2,crc16 vermagic: 2.6.24-0.42.rc3.git1.fc9 SMP mod_unload 686 4KSTACKS # modinfo ext4 modinfo: could not find module ext4 -- shrek-m _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list rhelv5-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
