Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 661888
Support/testing of XFS filesystem as part of RHEL HA Add On
Last modified: 2011-12-06 07:02:27 EST
Description of problem: XFS works as a valid filesystem in the fs resource agent, but we need to include XFS testing in the context of RHEL HA Add On to fully support it. The existing test matrix that covers ext2/3/4 just needs to be expanded to include tests of XFS as well
Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team. New Contents: For RHEL 6.0 and 6.1, usage of XFS within RHEL HA Add On is considered Technology Preview. Full support for XFS within the RHEL HA Add On as a managed resource will be fully supported in a future release of RHEL.
Technical note updated. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team. Diffed Contents: @@ -1 +1 @@ -For RHEL 6.0 and 6.1, usage of XFS within RHEL HA Add On is considered Technology Preview. Full support for XFS within the RHEL HA Add On as a managed resource will be fully supported in a future release of RHEL.+XFS in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 High Availability Add On is considered Technology Preview.
Please also add the following to the above tech-note in order to avoid ambiguity with regards to the support status of XFS in general: "Note that XFS itself is fully supported in RHEL6.0 and 6.1 and is generally available as the Scalable File System Add-On."
Technical Note text tweaked to reinforce the point that XFS is supported in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 but is a technology preview in the High Availability Add On.
Technical note updated. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team. Diffed Contents: @@ -1 +1 @@ -XFS in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 High Availability Add On is considered Technology Preview.+XFS in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 High Availability Add On is considered a Technology Preview. Note: XFS and the Scalable File System Add-On are fully-supported in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. XFS is a Technology Preview as part of the High Availability Add On.
Technical note updated. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team. Diffed Contents: @@ -1 +1 @@ -XFS in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 High Availability Add On is considered a Technology Preview. Note: XFS and the Scalable File System Add-On are fully-supported in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. XFS is a Technology Preview as part of the High Availability Add On.+XFS in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 High Availability Add-On is considered a Technology Preview. Note: XFS and the Scalable File System Add-On are fully-supported in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. XFS is a Technology Preview as part of the High Availability Add-On.
Technical note updated. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team. Diffed Contents: @@ -1 +1 @@ -XFS in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 High Availability Add-On is considered a Technology Preview. Note: XFS and the Scalable File System Add-On are fully-supported in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. XFS is a Technology Preview as part of the High Availability Add-On.+XFS in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 High Availability Add-On is considered a Technology Preview. Note: XFS and the Scalable File System Add-On are fully-supported in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
Technical note updated. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team. Diffed Contents: @@ -1 +1 @@ -XFS in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 High Availability Add-On is considered a Technology Preview. Note: XFS and the Scalable File System Add-On are fully-supported in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.+XFS filesystem failover in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 High Availability Add-On is considered a Technology Preview. Note: XFS and the Scalable File System Add-On are fully-supported in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
I added XFS as an option to be used with HA LVM testing. This basically places XFS on top of HA LVM mirrored volumes (where ext3 had been). Service relocation and mirror device failure test cases were then executed. Everything worked (or didn't work) as expected.
I ran through the HA-NFS tests with XFS backing and found no issues.
Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1580.html