OCFS2 and tools in FC.

[Naoki]

> On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 17:09 +0900, Naoki wrote:
>   
>> OCFS2 made it into the mainstream kernel a while ago. But while Debian
>> and SUSE ship OCFS2 tools, FC does not.
>>
>> Is this simply a case of nobody submitting them, or is there a license
>> issue (nah, it's GPL) ?  
>>     
>
> perhaps you need somebody with a bit of knowledge about and willing to
> support that file system?
I can't see that as being an issue. On the most basic level it is as any 
other file system, you format and mount. Other than that support would 
be on the ocfs  or fedora mailing lists as usual.

>> If the answer is the former then is there time to add them before FC7 ?
>>     
>
> Nope, today is feature freeze.
>   

Which ends on the 29th. That raises a question though, as it would be 
essentially the same as adding something to 'extras', we're not talking 
about a major (or minor) feature change or an API alteration. Just 
adding some open tools for an already existing feature.

If this was the FC6 cycle it could probably just slip into extras 
unnoticed, so how would it work under the merge? Add it to the extras 
wish list or just submit it?

>> It's the only main line clustered file system and I'd like to run it
>> through the gauntlet with my favourite OS.
>>     
>
> Not true, GFS2 is in the kernel as well:
>
> http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_19
>
> Its tools are included in Fedora.
>   
I stand corrected! It "was" the only one in the kernel. But I'd still 
not rather use GFS and have been waiting for OCFS2 tools to appear in FC 
for over a year. Yes I know one can download the tools from the oracle 
site but when we ship tools for most (all?) other file systems 
(e2fsprogs & ntfsprogs as expected, xfsprogs, hfsplus-tools, plus fuse 
and other randomness) it hardly seems logical to just leave it out.

If it isn't already I would expect standard policy would be to ship the 
utilities package for any standard, enabled, file system ?