From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Description of problem: It would be very useful to include RedHat's recently acquired GFS and Oracle's OCFS and OCFSv2 in with the ES and AS distributions. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Additional info:
I should have also requested the option to use file systems other than ext[23] (i.e. reiserfs) at install time.
Internal RFE bug #137053 entered; will be considered for future releases.
Please consider for EL4. We should not have to go into single user mode and unmount /usr (for example) to grow the filesystem. It is this lack of functionality that is preventing Linux being installed on critical systems. A filesystem that can be grown on-line *is critical*. RedHat is touting the aquirement of GFS. Why not do something useful with it? Does RedHat really what to make us use NFS instead?
GFS is available for purchase as a layered product for RHEL 3: http://www.redhat.com/software/rha/gfs/ Red Hat's policy is to support the ext3 filesystem in the core product, and not reiserfs or OCFS. Note that RHEL 4 will add support for on-line growing of ext3 filesystems in conjunction with Logical Volume Manager 2 -- built into the base RHEL OS.