Uwe Gansert wrote
on Wednesday 17 August 2011 Frank Steiner wrote:
Sascha Wehnert wrote
If the outcome should be a supported setup, then ext4 is definitely not the way to go. We will not support it on SLE11. You are definitely taking the wrong approach. There is no reason why you couldn't add ext4 as "it's availabe, but not supported, use on your own risk" feature as you do it with many others (like lpr or lilo).
I just checked again with the Product Management of SLES11 and we will have the ext4 module in the inst-sys. Still unsupported but it's there :)
Nice :-) I'm taking everything back I said before :-) Seriously, I just had a call by Matthias Eckermann who dicussed the issue with me and pointed me to btrfs that should have reached enterprise quality level in SP2 (coming end of the year). I'm sure I will give it a try and see if the performance penalties have gone then (see e.g. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_2638_large&num=1 http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1102232-IV-LINUX263547,1102242-IV-1102232... It sounds like Novell is supporting the developement of btrfs actively and btrfs will become the standard fs in SLE at some time. It's good to know that at this time. So I'm definitely happy with having the choice between non-supported ext4 and supported btrfs in SP2. cu, Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049 * Rekursion kann man erst verstehen, wenn man Rekursion verstanden hat. * -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help@opensuse.org