On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 02:33 +0530, Rahul wrote: > Hi > > Ext3(ext2) are the only formally supported on disk filesystems in Fedora > apart from GFS for clustering. There is a limited option for other > filesystems like reiserfs, xfs and jfs which doesnt go much beyond > packaging what upstream provides and which is only meant to be > transiently used for people migrating off such filesystems. > > Moving such tools to Fedora Extras doesnt help since Anaconda wouldnt > support it during installation time. I am not sure this would make sense > even if Anaconda gets support for Fedora Extras. Community participation > on such things tend to be limited due to the amount of expertise > required. The large impact of such a core piece of technology needs to > be taken into account here. > > I believe it is better to get them supported or drop them completely > instead of the current status quo which leads to a less tested and > potentially dangerous option being provided to provided to end users > (though they have to enable it explicitly). Without good support, things > like SELinux in reiserfs to pick a example would end up being broken now > and then and that isnt a good thing at all. > > Realistically we need to make a hard choice on this. explain that well, > stick to that and make sure that support well what we do rather than > provide a multitude of half baked options (kernel-unsupported comes to > mind for those aware of the pains we had with it). > Why wouldn't this sort of technical decision be made by the installer maintainers? -sv _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board-readonly mailing list fedora-advisory-board-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board-readonly
