Hi, On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 11:50:24AM -0800, IT3 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR-R wrote: > I understand that modifying ext2/ext3 absent backwards > compatibly is a big deal, but I think adding that function would be a > wonderful thing. Right now, ext3 is backwards AND forwards-compatible with ext2. You can take an existing filesystem and mount it as ext3; but you can also take the same filesystem and remount it after as ext2 if you want. In other words, you have a migration path back to the old stable code if the new code fails. Dynamic inodes would change the filesystem in really fundamental ways. There's no telling what the performance impact would be over time. It would NOT be possible to revert to old kernel code. That's the sort of change that we are very, very wary about making in the core ext3 code. If you want dynamic inodes, you can always run reiserfs. > I also would like to see RH 7.2 be able to install into a > ReiserFS filesystem (or any type of filesystem with Linux, Mandrake > allows this), and think it is somewhat arrogant of RedHat to disallow > that option in the installer. Red Hat is serious about enterprise reliability. When we were evaluating various filesystems for 7.2, we couldn't make reiserfs survive under load. ext3 we were able to make rock-solid. That was the prime factor in determining what the official recommended journaling filesystem would be for 7.2. (Note that reiserfs has had a lot of bugfixing since we froze for 7.2; Chris Mason has done an outstanding job of making sure that problems in the 2.4 reiserfs code get dealt with quickly and that changes get merged back.) > Notwithstanding that fact, I have made > ReiserFS work as my root partition, I just cannot get ReiserFS on RH 7.2 > to boot up when devfs=mount is used. I've no idea about devfs. I avoid it like the plague. Why can't you just mount devfs in fstab if you want it so much? Cheers, Stephen
