[Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 1.6 for RHEL?

[Sunil Mushran]

If big user base is the best way... then we have no worries because
ocfs2 1.6 is available on fedora, opensuse, ubuntu and debian.

On 05/13/2011 12:53 PM, Kristian Jörg wrote:
> We are using CentOS (based on RHEL5). So this basically means we are stuck with ocfs2 1.4 forever when it comes to official releases?
> But I guess when you release the source code for 1.6 I could try and compile it myself for CentOS? 1.6 is still GPL right?
>
> We have been testing ocfs2 since we have been having huge problems with GFS with the kind of filesystems we have (lots and lots of small files and mostly read access). Ocfs2 seems to solve all these performance problems and we had high hopes for it. However the news that 1.6 and forward will not be available for RHEL/CentOS is bad news. I do hope you will reconsider. A big user base is the best way to make successful products IMHO.
>
> /Kristian
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> Sunil Mushran skrev 2011-05-13 18:46:
>> Support is a whole different ballgame. I am only talking
>> about availability. And I interpreted that qs to be asking
>> whether ocfs2 1.6 be available for the standard rhel kernels.
>> And the answer is no. It will be available only for uek.
>>
>> On 05/13/2011 08:34 AM, Fahrenfort, Keith (HP Shared Solutions Architect for Oracle) wrote:
>>> Hi Sunil, can you clarify - I understood that OCFS2 1.6 on RHEL would be supported, as long as you use RHEL with UEK and an Oracle Support agreement - per MOS note 1253272.1?
>>>
>>> Thanks! Regards!
>>>
>>> Keith Fahrenfort
>>> Solutions Architect - HP-Oracle Competency Center
>>> Americas Shared Solutions Architecture (SSA)
>>> Hewlett-Packard Company
>>> 281 475 8632 / Tel
>>> keithf at hp.com / Email
>>> Reach the team at ssa at hp.com
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: ocfs2-users-bounces at oss.oracle.com [mailto:ocfs2-users-bounces at oss.oracle.com] On Behalf Of Sunil Mushran
>>> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 10:06 AM
>>> To: Kristian Jörg
>>> Cc: ocfs2-users at oss.oracle.com
>>> Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 1.6 for RHEL?
>>>
>>> On 05/13/2011 03:13 AM, Kristian Jörg wrote:
>>>> Hello!
>>>>
>>>> When is it planned ocfs2 1.6 will be available for RHEL?
>>>>
>>>> /Kristian
>>> No plans. Only OL/UEK.
>>>
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