> 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.
Of course SLES supports XFS, the story we got was the because the default is "reiser" (or somesuch) that XFS was not supported. The implication being that reiser was the only one supported, and not ext2/ext3/xfs/other. (At the moment I do not recall what SLES considers default, just that I know it is not XFS. s/reiser/ext3/ if I have the wrong default.) Given there are a multitude of filesystems, (ZFS/butterfs/ext1/ufs/msdos/vfat/jfs) Dell needs to limit it somehow, sure. Or, being as they are a hardware company, they should not really care, which I think is what they should be doing. If you ever get into a situation with XFS corruption problems, Novell are the guys to talk to, not Dell. Anyways, the point of my post was to make people aware of this as a potential roadblock to getting support. You need to be ready for the situation. cheers --John _______________________________________________ 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
