XFS Support in RHEL Server 6.4 x86_64

[Ric Wheeler]

On 04/24/2013 11:00 AM, James Braid wrote:
>
> On 24 April 2013 11:48, Michael Weissenbacher <mw at dermichi.com 
> <mailto:mw at dermichi.com>> wrote:
>
>     But the big question now is: can anybody actually recommend using XFS on
>     stock RHEL? It does feel like being just a stepchild there. On the other
>     hand there seem be be quite a number of patches that were backported for
>     Red Hat's kernel and it does use delaylog by default (which IIRC wasn't
>     the default with a stock 2.6.32 Kernel).
>
>
> It's an addon product and not supported as a root filesystem on RHEL 6:
>
> http://www.redhat.com/products/enterprise-linux-add-ons/file-systems/
>
> A number of the XFS developers are employed by Red Hat...
>
>

And it is the only file system in RH Storage (gluster) that we support and quite 
popular with normal RHEL users as well.

Definitely not ignored in any way.

If you have questions about how to get it, let me know.

Regards,

Ric