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