<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Beddingfield, Allen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:allen@ua.edu" target="_blank">allen@ua.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I'm no avid Red Hat fan (more of a SUSE guy), but I'm glad to hear that they are FINALLY putting in some proper support for XFS as the default filesystem in 7.x...at least that is what I have heard. We've been using XFS for everything except /boot on SLES for years now....with no additional charge, and no restrictions about it being used for /. I hope they will finally make this a possibility with RHEL.<br clear="all">
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>XFS has been an option since early RHEL6 for anything BUT /boot. I'll be happy when they backport the fix for ext4 to support common drive array sizes (bigger than 14TB) . OK, so I just throw XFS at them but it's a fix that should have been done 2 years ago.<br>
</div></div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr">-- <br>James P. Kinney III<br><i><i><i><i><br></i></i></i></i>Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you
gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
own tail. It won't fatten the dog.<br>
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