13 May
2009
13 May
'09
10:07 p.m.
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 ext4. It's all just speculation until we see the goods, of course.
I think it is more than speculation - xfs support has already gone into 5.4 pre-release kernels at http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5/ - the change log includes:
- [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 ...
James Pearson