[svlug] File system choice.

[Philip Martin]

XFS is not a supported filesystem for RHEL5.  It is, however, likely
going to be in RHEL6.  see:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=213744.

Last I heard, ext4 was on the RHEL roadmap for 5.3 (with a preview in
5.2).  I don't know if that is still true.  Even if it is, who wants
to use a brand new, to RHEL, filesystem for (what sounds like) an
important production server?  I thought not...

If you are looking for a native, supported (by redhat) solution that
is available right now, ext3 is pretty much your only bet.  If you are
willing to pony up the extra $$ GFS may meet your needs, although it
would be a little overkill.

-Philip


On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 9:29 PM, David Fox <dfox94085 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/5/08, James Sparenberg <james at linuxrebel.org> wrote:
>>   1.  High fault protection (journaled)
>>   2.  Decent speed reading and writing, about 20G a day gets added and
>>  deleted. on average (different files).
>
> I'd try recommending xfs, but it doesn't seem (at least from doing a
> google on rhel 5 + xfs) that it's natively supported on RHEL5.
>
> I don't have any direct experience with RHEL - my last foray into
> Redhat ended when I wiped it and put Mandrake on (7.x) back in 2001.
> So obviously my memory is hazy.
>
> On the other hand, seeing this, I might change my mind about that. :)
>
> http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/rhel5/rhel5_administration/rhel5_ch-disk-storage.html
>
> Seems to suggest that jfs and xfs are supported.
>
> FWIW, my new box is a mixture of ext3 and xfs - xfs for the home and
> storage directories, and storage contains rather large files
> (megabytes each). Running ubuntu hardy heron, amd64.
>
> Are you really committed to RHEL?
>
>>  James
>
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