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
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Eric Sandeen XFS for Linux http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
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