"IT3 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR-R" wrote: > With regard to ReiserFS, I don't see why allowing it to be > installed that way, means it must be a supported configuration. > RH could easily simply allow you to install in that manner, > but support it via their technical support. Mandrake may operate that way, but RedHat does _not_ -- at least that has been my experience. What RedHat sells you in the box is supported -- or it would find some of its "Enterprise" customers wondering why they don't. I haven't seen broken packages continued to be broken in revisions of RedHat releases like Mandrake ones. ;-P Furthermore, while Mandrake supports XFS in its kernels, most of us that use XFS use RedHat (with the SGI-patched RedHat kernels). It think this emphasizes the point I'm trying to make even further. > I believe this choice was made, simply to promote ext3, not out > of the need of users. If RedHat was out to "just promote" Ext3, I don't think Ext3 would have been in beta-testing at RedHat for about 18 months -- they would have just shoved it in its products immediately. > Mandrake has its own set of issues, but I prefer RedHat for some other > reasons, just think it could be improved if it allowed this function. I think you just hit the nail on the head in the first part of your statement. ;-PPP Just because ReiserFS was in the stock kernel as of 2.4.1, and Ext3 not until 2.4.15, doesn't mean companies are willing to support it. If you want ReiserFS, I'd go with SuSE. They have the most experience with it, including running their internal network on it as far back as the 2.2 days (even if that meant a kludge of patches and workarounds for NFS). -- Bryan -- Bryan J. Smith, Engineer mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org AbsoluteValue Systems, Inc. http://www.linux-wlan.org SmithConcepts, Inc. http://www.SmithConcepts.com --------------------------------------------------------- 1999 IRS Data: The top 1% of income earners pay over 36% of the taxes, but have less than 20% of the total income.
