Difference between revisions of "RHEL 8 Features"

Latest revision as of 11:13, 6 September 2023

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^[4])
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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 [[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>
+* RHEL 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6<ref>https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html-single/8.6_release_notes/index</ref>, 8.7, 8.8
+* Upstream [[Linux Kernel changelog|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
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 *https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/stability-plus-innovation-red-hat-enterprise-linux-84-now-ga
 ** [[OSTree]]
-** [[Podman]] now has support in RHEL for auto-updating container images
+** [[Podman]] now has support in RHEL for [[auto-updating]] container images
 ** [[RELP]]
-** SSH Client [[system role]]
+** SSH server and client [[system roles]] https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/automating-and-managing-ssh-server-configuration-rhel-system-roles-part-1
 == Related terms ==
 * [[NetworkManager]]
-* sudo [[dnf upgrade --refresh]]
+* <code>sudo [[dnf upgrade --refresh]]</code>
 * [[AppStreams]]