"All practical purposes" except the extremely practical purpose of having shared filesystems in a cluster.
I can see that RedHat may have interest in refusing to allow OCFS2 on RHEL because it conflicts with their own GFS2 product offering. And I can see that Oracle may have interest in refusing to allow OCFS2 on RHEL because that conflicts with their own OL6 product offering. Sure, the OL6 may be "pay less for better support" but when a shop has a large quantity of RHEL6 systems already, and wants to use just a few of them with OCFS2, it complicates things if those boxen have to run the slightly different OL6 instead (more support contracts to manage, different patch/upgrade lifecycles to follow, etc.). So tell me Herbert, is it actually a technical limitation, or was the decision to not support RHEL6 politically motivated? (Politically meaning a corporate and/or financial conflict of interest) As it stands, I have a handful of systems that are "stuck" on RHEL5 + OCFS2 1.4.x for the time being because I would have to replace them with OL6 instead of RHEL6 if I want to upgrade either one of the OS or the OCFS2 version. All these years (since the early OCFS2 1.2.x on RHEL4) we had been strung along with the almost instant RHEL RPM releases. Then came mainline kernel acceptance of OCFS2, and we were even happier and more confident that it was okay to rely on this filesystem for years to come. I was kinda bummed when the no RHEL6 thing came about, and really hate to think it's due to upper management style decision making, as that is very much against a lot of the principles behind Linux & Open Source in general. At 05:19 PM 4/22/2014, ocfs2-users-requ...@oss.oracle.com wrote: >Message: 3 >Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 15:12:52 -0700 >From: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.be...@oracle.com> >Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 support for RHEL 6.4 >To: "Pratt, Lisa M" <lisa.m.pr...@boeing.com>, > "ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com" <ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com> >Message-ID: <5356e964.4060...@oracle.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > >Supported Operating Systems Oracle Linux, RHEL (OCFS 1.4.8 only) > > >And since 1.4.8 isn't supported on RHEL6, that implies OCFS2 isn't >supported on RHEL6. It is on OL6, which is identical to RHEL6 for all >practical purposes, except that you have to be willing to pay less for >better support ;-) > >Thanks, >Herbert. _______________________________________________ Ocfs2-users mailing list Ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com https://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users
