Re: [CentOS] 5.3 and XFS

2009-05-14 Thread James Pearson
Ralph Angenendt wrote: > James Pearson wrote: > >>- [fs] xfs: backport to rhel5.4 kernel (Eric Sandeen ) [470845] >>- [fs] xfs: update to 2.6.28.6 codebase (Eric Sandeen ) [470845] >> >>Eric Sandeen is ex-SGI and I guess the experienced XFS engineer >>mentioned ... > > No, Eric is doing ext4 (a

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 and XFS

2009-05-14 Thread Ralph Angenendt
James Pearson wrote: > - [fs] xfs: backport to rhel5.4 kernel (Eric Sandeen ) [470845] > - [fs] xfs: update to 2.6.28.6 codebase (Eric Sandeen ) [470845] > > Eric Sandeen is ex-SGI and I guess the experienced XFS engineer > mentioned ... No, Eric is doing ext4 (and has been for quite some while

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 and XFS

2009-05-13 Thread James Pearson
Geoff Galitz wrote: > > FWIW, at FOSDEM 2009 Ted T'so said that he anticipated official XFS support > from Redhat in the near future as they recently hired some experienced XFS > engineers. > > It was not an official announcement of any kind, he was just speculating > during a presentation on ex

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 and XFS

2009-05-13 Thread Geoff Galitz
> > xfs kmod's for centos-5 have so far been done within the centos loop, > but this is interesting - looks like 5.4 might have a tech-preview for > xfs included in. FWIW, at FOSDEM 2009 Ted T'so said that he anticipated official XFS support from Redhat in the near future as they recently hire

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 and XFS

2009-04-30 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 07:34:13AM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > > Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >> I never thought of that given that they come from the plus repo. So its > >> only > > > > iirc, the xfs kmod's are not kernel ver dependant an

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 and XFS (fwd)

2009-04-17 Thread James A. Peltier
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Ross Walker wrote: > Time to format isn't really an issue as it is done once before being > put into production. The biggest concern is processing performance and > time to fsck as well as data integrity and recoverability. Listen, when you're talking a multi TB or PB file sy

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 and XFS (fwd)

2009-04-17 Thread Ross Walker
On Apr 17, 2009, at 5:01 PM, "James A. Peltier" wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Ross Walker wrote: > >> I think it's worth while to keep xfs updated for a while until ext4 >> has made enough of an in-road to say xfs should be depreciated in >> favor of ext4. >> >> -Ross > > Considering that it s

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 and XFS (fwd)

2009-04-17 Thread James A. Peltier
list Subject: Re: [CentOS] 5.3 and XFS On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Ross Walker wrote: > I think it's worth while to keep xfs updated for a while until ext4 > has made enough of an in-road to say xfs should be depreciated in > favor of ext4. > > -Ross Considering that it still takes se

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 and XFS

2009-04-16 Thread Ross Walker
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > > Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >> I never thought of that given that they come from the plus repo. So its > >> only > >> a matter of time then before it appears for the 5.3 kernels... If

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 and XFS

2009-04-16 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> I never thought of that given that they come from the plus repo. So its only >> a matter of time then before it appears for the 5.3 kernels... If I have >> time this >> weekend, I'll yank an srpm down from the 5.2

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 and XFS

2009-04-16 Thread Karanbir Singh
Joseph L. Casale wrote: > I never thought of that given that they come from the plus repo. So its only > a matter of time then before it appears for the 5.3 kernels... If I have time > this > weekend, I'll yank an srpm down from the 5.2 branch kmod and see what's > involved in making this (Never d

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 and XFS

2009-04-15 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>xfs kmod's for centos-5 have so far been done within the centos loop, >but this is interesting - looks like 5.4 might have a tech-preview for >xfs included in. I never thought of that given that they come from the plus repo. So its only a matter of time then before it appears for the 5.3 kernels.

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 and XFS

2009-04-15 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 04/15/2009 08:58 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > Looking at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469401 > has me a bit unsure about the kmod for 5.3's kernel, is not expected > to appear? xfs kmod's for centos-5 have so far been done within the centos loop, but this is interesting - looks