XFS on RHEL5
Hi Ron,
Is XFS on RHEL5 a billable support.
We are considering XFS on one data mining setup currently running on RHEL5u8.
The kernel looks to have xfs support already, but not xfsutils. Seems that this is chargeable Scalable File System?
Thanks
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Active Contributor
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Dear Ramzaidi,
We are a customer community, but not a contract management team.
I do not see any Scalable File System in my account for RHEL 5, but it is available for RHEL 6.
Kind regards,
Jan Gerrit Kootstra
Red Hat
Guru
7257 points
Yes, the Scalable Filesystem add-on product provides access to the channel which contains the XFS utilities. You'll need RHEL 5.5 or later:
Which package provides XFS (Red Hat Scalable File System)?
https://access.redhat.com/site/solutions/31707
You're correct that the RHEL5 (and RHEL6) kernel contain the XFS driver, so you could mount an XFS filesystem on RHEL5 or RHEL6, however such a filesystem would be unsupported by Red Hat without the Scalable FS entitlement. You'd also have no utilities to check the filesystem, in the event you needed to.
However, if you are doing a new deployment, we'd strongly encourage you to use RHEL7. Not only do you get XFS for free in the base server entitlement, you get a much more recent version of XFS with a significant amount of performance and stability improvements.
Check out the Product Lifecycle page, you'll see RHEL5 is about to enter Production 3 which is intended to approach a wind-down period where bugfix errata slow down. Whilst new deployments can still be done in Prod 3, this is the time when your organization should be considering a later major version of RHEL.
Red Hat
Guru
3695 points
Have you thought about trying RHEL 7? XFS is the default file system for RHEL 7 with no extra costs / Add-Ons.
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