[sles-beta] Antwort: question ext4

[Heiss Florian]

Which tools are you talking about? If you refer to the Hyper-V ICs they are part of the linux kernel since 2.6.32 - since version 10 they are even part of Free-BSD! And there is no difference between them if you activate kernel modules for hyper-v in version 3.4 you get the same result on every system. So where is the difference between SUSE and RedHat oder CentOS? Why is there any difference in the recommended file system?

Have a nice day!
Flo

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From: Matthias G. Eckermann [mge at suse.com]
Sent: 13 March 2014 11:23
To: Heiss Florian
Subject: Re: [sles-beta] Antwort:  question ext4

On 2014-03-13 T 10:16 +0000 Heiss Florian wrote:
> z.K. Seite 12
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34603

Well, yes, this is the README for RHEL and CentOS,
not for SLES.

The tools are integrated in SLES already, and thus
there is no specific README, thus SUSE's recommendations
apply.

So long -
        MgE

> ________________________________________
> From: Matthias G. Eckermann [mge at suse.com]
> Sent: 13 March 2014 11:10
> To: Heiss Florian
> Subject: Re: [sles-beta] Antwort:  question ext4
>
> Hello,
>
> On 2014-03-13 T 10:02 +0000 Heiss Florian wrote:
>
> > Of course there is a need for ext4! To be precise
> > there is a urgent need for ext4 support, I am waiting
> > SUSE to catch up with this "de facto industry
> > standard" for years now.
>
> you will see this changing very quickly, and you will
> see that SUSE's choice to recommend xfs for enterprise
> data for 10 years already is proven right.
>
> > Some time ago Microsoft promised there would be Linux
> > support for virtual machines, especially SLES. I never
> > believed that it would be easy but we tried it and
> > though its been a hard ride sometimes, I can say its
> > getting better.  Most of the - lets say -
> > uncomfortabilities originate in Microsoft not being
> > interested in Linux very much but in this case you
> > can`t blame them. Their official paper lets us know:
> > "Using the ext4 file system is recommended for
> > production deployments of Linux on Hyper-V"
>
> let me go back to Microsoft and ask.
>
> > and this shouldn`t be so hard to fullfill, as I cannot
> > think of one big distribution other then SLES11 that
> > doesn`t support ext4.
>
> xfs is more scalable and more reliable for your data.
>
> so long -
>         MgE
>
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Matthias G. Eckermann     Senior Product Manager   SUSE® Linux Enterprise
Phone: +49 30 44315731    Mobile: +49 179 2949448    E-Mail: mge at suse.com
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH  Maxfeldstraße 5          90409 Nürnberg Germany
GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)