It is good to hear that those things are making it out into
the releases. One question: is the VW stuff (namely sgivpro)
in RH7 too?
Steve
On Feb 9, 9:46am, John Wright wrote:
> Subject: Re: New ProPak?
> On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 10:28:18AM -0500, Ken Murchison wrote:
> > When is there going to be an updated ProPak (1.5)? More specifically,
> > will there be a ProPak built on RH7? Or are some/most of the features
> > of previous ProPaks built-in to RH7?
>
> Short version is that most of the features are in RH7 now. There are some
> features that we decided wasn't all that important unless you bought one
> of our solutions (ACE, ISE, etc) so we just pushed them up into the
> solution packs. So ProPack 1.4 for ia32 will be the last ProPack availible.
>
> > I'm most interested in the NFSv3 kernel implementation and XFS. I know
> > that I can get the XFS 0.9 overlay for RH7, but what about NFSv3?
>
> NFSv3 made it into the 2.2 series and is availible via RH7. There may
> still be a couple of issues in the 2.4 kernel and we are working thru that.
> They should be resolved by the time RH releases a supported version of
> the 2.4 kernel.
>
> XFS isn't in RH7.0, and I'm not sure about 7.1 (that's up to RH). We have
> made availible the beta as you have seen. Remains to be seen whether XFS
> will get accepted into the stock kernel first, or RH will adopt an XFS patch
> frist, or whether we decide to productize a solution around fileserving
> to deliver XFS first. This is the nature of linux development. Right now
> the prioroity is to finish off the rest of the XFS TODO list for a 1.0
release.
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