On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 07:10 -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Tue, 3 May 2005 at 1:15pm, Maciej Zenczykowski wrote
>
> > I basically need reiserfs3 (nb. why is it disabled? it's a module, you
> > use it, it doesn't wreck anything...) and I don't really want to change
> > the rest of the kernel, and I'd like to have the minimum amount of fuss on
> > future kernel upgrades.
>
> Not answering the main question, but I would guess that this module is
> disabled for the same reason that XFS is -- support. Anything Red Hat
> distributes in RHEL they must support at a high level. They decided not
> to spend resources supporting XFS, and it looks like reiserfs is in the
> same boat.
And, following along on this track ... it is disabled in CentOS because
it is disabled in RHEL and we are supposed to be cloning what RHEL
does :). I might do a extended kernel for U1 (in centosplus) that has
reiserfs support.
Since we are talking about file system support, you also need to make it
be in the initrd image to see reiserfs filesystems at boot time...
I would say that your best bet is to just modify the kernel config file
and recompile it in whole... then you are not fighting other potential
problems. (That is what I would do if i needed reiserfs).
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
Url : http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050503/c2e06495/attachment.bin
