Difference between revisions of "RHEL 8 Features"

Revision as of 04:09, 27 August 2021

Filesystem and Storage

XFS now supports shared copy-on-write data extents
Btrfs file system is not supported
ext4 file system now supports metadata checksum (already available since 2012 in Linux kernel 3.5^[3])
Stratis new local storage manager as technology preview
LVM no longer used clvmd, it uses lvmlockd
LVM no longer uses lvmetad daemon for caching metadata and always read metadata from disks.

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-New features from [[RHEL]] 8.0 (05/2019): Release Notes https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html-single/8.0_release_notes/index and announcement<ref>https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2019/05/07/red-hat-enterprise-linux-8-now-generally-available/</ref>.
+[[wikipedia:RHEL 8]] New features from [[RHEL]] 8.0 (05/2019): Release Notes https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html-single/8.0_release_notes/index and announcement<ref>https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2019/05/07/red-hat-enterprise-linux-8-now-generally-available/</ref>.
-* upstream [[Linux kernel]] 4.18<ref>https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_4.18</ref>
+* Upstream [[Linux kernel]] 4.18<ref>https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_4.18</ref>
 * [[YUM]] [[package manager]] is now based on the [[DNF]] technology
 * [[Nginx change log|nginx]] 1.14 and [[Varnish Cache]] 6.0 now supported