[CentOS] XFS on CentOS

[Ray Van Dolson]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 01:48:42PM -0400, Steve Huff wrote:
> 
> On Jun 22, 2010, at 12:41 PM, Boris Epstein wrote:
> 
> > why does RHEL not support XFS straight out of the box?
> 
> i suspect you would be more likely to receive a meaningful answer
> from one of these sources:
> 
> https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
> https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-beta-list
> 
> in addition, this bugzilla entry
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=213744#c10) suggests
> that you can contact Eric Sandeen at RH for further information about
> XFS in RHEL.

FYI, XFS should be fully supported in RHEL6 and at some point in RHEL5
(I believe it's "layered" right now).  The kernel supports it, but the
userspace tools must be retrieved separately from a special channel or
through support.

Red Hat had to hire an XFS engineer so they could properly support it.

Ray