On Tuesday 11 August 2009 16:11:32 Jeff Hanson wrote: > > SLES support XFS fully. For Dell not to is just silly. I could see that > if it was RHEL. CentOS and Fedora support XFS.
SLES sometimes supports stuff that Redhat regard as "not ready for prime time". DELL presumably have to target a set of tools they are comfortable and capable of supporting internally. I have a mental note filed away that XFS fsck (repair) can be memory hungry. I believe there was discussion on LKML several years back about the delightful "Out of memory" error, and how this isn't a good thing when trying to recover very large and very full file systems, especially when such commands can take hours to run. Looks like that has been fixed: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=289665 But the kind of thing that makes support desk staff blood run cold. Simon _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
