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<DIV><SPAN class=287333823-07122004><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Hi,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=287333823-07122004> <FONT face=Arial
size=2>We will have to go and use SuSE (30 servers) just because ext3 filesystem
cannot be increase while the filesystem is mounted.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=287333823-07122004> <FONT face=Arial size=2>I
Don't understand why RedHat do not support filesystems that can do thing that
ext3 cannot do.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=287333823-07122004> <FONT face=Arial
size=2>When is RedHat going to understand that in a production environnement (30
servers that is seems will be SuSE) we need extend filesystem
online.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=287333823-07122004> <FONT face=Arial
size=2>IBM JS, Reiserfs and XFS Filsystems will allow user to extend their
filesystems without unmounting them (When they are in a Volume Group -
LVM).</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=287333823-07122004> I
would have liked to go with RedHat, but they do not give me the
choice.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=287333823-07122004>
They stick to ext3 (refuse to support any others filesystems) while SuSE (An
American Company now) support ext3,reiserfs,JFS and XFS.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=287333823-07122004>
SuSE offer 4 supported filesystems, while RedHat offer 1 (supported) filesystems
and on top off that we cannot increase them online !</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=287333823-07122004>
RedHat will have to review their marketing technique or they will loose some
important market to SuSE, the other big American Linux
company.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>-----</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jacques Duplessis</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="mailto:jacques.duplessis@videotron.ca">jacques.duplessis@videotron.ca</A></FONT></DIV>
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