>>> On 11/3/2011 at 10:32 AM, Lionel Dyck <lionel.d...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > After reading this > http://www.mainframezone.com/it-management/linux-on-system-z-choices-in-file > -systems > > > Has anyone heard what SUSE's plans are to provide an alternative within > the SLES distribution?
There is no need to provide an alternative. Some comments from our people intimately familiar with this: - OCFS2 is _not_ going away! - SUSE is committed to support OCFS2 as the open source cluster file system of choice on all SUSE Linux Enterprise architectures, System z prominently amongst them. - ... since OCFS2 is upstream, there's no way Oracle can hold back work to UBL. (Unbreakable Linux) - SUSE supports OCFS2 - SUSE has no plans to stop the support for OCFS in SUSE Linux Enterprise High Available Extension - SUSE supports OCFS2 on all SUSE Linux Enterprise Architectures, certainly including IBM System z - SUSE has our own resources working on OCFS2; independent of what Oracle is doing And to repeat what I said on October 12: Oracle doesn't provide support to end customers of anyone except themselves. The distribution providers do that, or in the case of System z, IBM might. Both OCFS2 and the ocfs2-tools are GPL licensed, hence the source is pretty easily obtained. Including that of ocfs-tools 1.6.4, which I just checked. Plus, Oracle employees aren't the only ones developing OCFS2. That's one of the major benefits of getting your code into the main kernel tree. Other people can and do hack on it. The other thing to remember is that version numbers on packages in Enterprise Linux distributions has little relationship to what features are included in the package. Back porting of features is very common, and OCFS2 is no exception. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
