CentOS - Jun 2014 - Information Week: RHEL 7 released today

Excerpt:
Red Hat released the 7.0 version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux today, with
embedded support for Docker containers and support for direct use of
Microsoft's Active Directory. The update uses XFS as its new file system.
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<http://www.informationweek.com/cloud/infrastructure-as-a-service/red-hat-enterprise-linux-7-whats-new/d/d-id/1269548>

We thought it was still weeks away....

      mark

On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 3:22 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
> Excerpt:
> Red Hat released the 7.0 version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux today, with
> embedded support for Docker containers and support for direct use of
> Microsoft's Active Directory. The update uses XFS as its new file
system.
> --- end excerpt ---
>
> <
>
http://www.informationweek.com/cloud/infrastructure-as-a-service/red-hat-enterprise-linux-7-whats-new/d/d-id/1269548
> >
>
> We thought it was still weeks away....
>
>       mark
>
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And the "When will Centos 7 be released" questions begin in 3...2...1
;P

"direct use of Microsoft's Active Directory" sounds intresting?
via samba
4? or via other implementation?

Eero


2014-06-10 23:22 GMT+03:00 <m.roth at 5-cent.us>:
> Excerpt:
> Red Hat released the 7.0 version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux today, with
> embedded support for Docker containers and support for direct use of
> Microsoft's Active Directory. The update uses XFS as its new file
system.
> --- end excerpt ---
>
> <
>
http://www.informationweek.com/cloud/infrastructure-as-a-service/red-hat-enterprise-linux-7-whats-new/d/d-id/1269548
> >
>
> We thought it was still weeks away....
>
>       mark
>
> _______________________________________________
> CentOS mailing list
> CentOS at centos.org
> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
>

m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> Red Hat released the 7.0 version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux today, with
> embedded support for Docker containers and support for direct use of
> Microsoft's Active Directory. The update uses XFS as its new file
system.
Does XFS have any advantages over ext4 for normal users, eg with laptops?
I've only seen it touted for machines with enormous disks, 200TB plus.

Does XFS have the same problems that LVM has if there are disk faults?

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Timothy Murphy  
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School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland