seth vidal wrote:
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?
This has similarities to the RPM discussion that came up recently.
Though it is a specific package, any changes has a large impact. It is
better to have a wider look at this IMO.
Rahul
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