Eric,
I couldn't agree more. I hope my querying was not taken as
being adversarial. It was not intended to be so. The intention
was as a mere probe to understand where SGI was going with
XFS since I know that SGI and RH have a callaboration in progress.
Obviously, the follow-on question for you is then, do you think
XFS will be stable enough for Red Hat's next release? Afterall,
no reason in applying pressure (no matter how polished) if not warranted.
Like I said, I am a fan of Linux and appreciate all that everyone
is doing in this world.
Stew
>
> Stewart Samuels wrote:
>
> > Eric, is SGI prepared to provide this type of installation ability
> > to RH (and others) at this point in time?
>
> Red Hat is well aware of what we are doing, and the source is available
> under the GPL to anyone who wants to use it.
>
> > If so, why do you think
> > RH has not provided this yet? Is it political, marketing, or technical?
>
> Technical, in the sense that Red Hat has stated in various forums that
> stability trumps all when deciding what to include in their
> distribution, and frankly, XFS wasn't quite there when they were
> preparing for 7.1.
>
> In all this talk of petitions, it's important to not take an adversarial
> stance. Red Hat has entirely valid reasons for only supporting ext2
> installs in Red Hat Linux 7.1.
>
> If you let them know, politely, that there is interest in having
> journaling filesystem support in their next release, that would probably
> be a good thing. When XFS is both stable & tested, and when enough
> users want it, I have little doubt that Red Hat will include it in their
> distribution.
>
> -Eric
>
> --
> Eric Sandeen XFS for Linux http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
> sandeen@xxxxxxx SGI, Inc.
>
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Stewart
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