Ext4 is on the rhel5 roadmap, according to a presentation at the Summit last year. It will likely be a tech preview in 5.2 and fully supported in 5.3 if all goes well iirc.
GFS may also be an option, depending on the need. On 11/25/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list rhelv5-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
