Thank you David for expressing my own sentiment precisely. We too have a few RedHat 5 servers straggling behind in our environment with ocfs2 1.4.x and we wont be going to OL6.
ram. On 24/04/14 03:50, David Johle wrote: > "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. > > > _______________________________________________ Ocfs2-users mailing list Ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com https://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users
