Robert Haines wrote: >> Seems more like jealousy or `not invented here' attitude than any good >> logical reasons to me. XFS was developed by SGI. Redhat seems to see >> SGI as >> a competitor, so do not help your competition no matter how stupid the >> decision is or how much extra work it costs you. Just one of many stupid >> decisions by Redhat. > > > Up until recently SGI used RedHat as the OS on their Altix and Prism > ranges of machines but they have since moved over to SuSE. There may be > a bit of tension there and RedHat may have spit out their dummy! I have found these today as I was checking about various file systems. Although a bit old, may be informing. http://www.redhat.com/support/wpapers/redhat/ext3 http://www.redhat.com/support/wpapers/redhat/ext3/why.html