[sles-beta] Antwort: question ext4

[Matthias G. Eckermann]

Hello,

On 2014-03-13 T 09:52 +0000 urs.frey at post.ch wrote:
 
> >Good.  -- Is there any need for ext4 then?
>
> Techincally seen, NO
> 
> But because Oracle, EMC (Networker Backup), Veritas
> (Symantec), VMWare do not support BtrFS (yet), ext4 is
> the only choice. (unfortunately)

> Maybe when other Linux distributions also support
> BtrFS as default filesystem, the critical mass could
> be reached for a change in the "political" games of
> the big application and middleware solution providers.

As said in our monday call, our recommendation is btrfs
for the OS (snapshot/rollback), and xfs for data.

I know that Oracle supports xfs, and I am not aware that
EMC², Veritas or VMware would not support xfs either.

Thus there are more choices than ext4 "only".

If you have different information, I'll push to bring
this up with the respective partners. 

so long -
	MgE
 
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: sles-beta-bounces at lists.suse.com [mailto:sles-beta-bounces at lists.suse.com] Im Auftrag von Matthias G. Eckermann
> Gesendet: Thursday, March 13, 2014 10:34 AM
> An: michael.baensch at dfs.de; sles-beta at lists.suse.com
> Betreff: Re: [sles-beta] Antwort: question ext4
> 
> On 2014-03-13 T 10:15 michael.baensch at dfs.de wrote:
>  
> > i had a look on the stream from monday beta call 2.
> > Sorry for the question, but from the sildes i'm not sure
> > what the status of ext 4 is? Supportet read & write?
> > Yes, an old topic.
> 
> In SLE 12 we will support the unified extX kernel module.
> 
> > The recommendation (brtfs & xfs) is clear.
> 
> Good.  -- Is there any need for ext4 then? 
> 
> so long -
> 	MgE
> 
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Matthias G. Eckermann     Senior Product Manager   SUSE® Linux Enterprise
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SUSE LINUX Products GmbH  Maxfeldstraße 5          90409 Nürnberg Germany
GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)