On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 18:35 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 13:20 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: > > Darko Ilic wrote: > > > I wanted to ask what are the opinions on the subject, and is there any chance > > > for SquashFS to make it's way into Fedora kernel by FC5? I`ve heard it was > > > submitted to LKML recently and there was some discussions surrounding that > > > and that it is a likely candidate for the upstream kernel. > > > > If it makes it upstream, then most likely, yes. > > I'd like to see a quality Fedora LiveCD. At my day job we're evaluating > livecds for kiosks, recovery, and lab installs. What has struck me in > recent days is that they're _all_ Debian based. If we want this to > change, we need to create liveCDs that I think a lot of people want to see a live CD and there's something of a push to get all of the pieces in place for in the FC5 timeframe. > squashfs and unionfs are both kernel modules that are pretty standard > fare in the liveCD world but are not part of the mainline kernel. We > need to include them in Fedora in order to advance our reputation in the > liveCD arena. And the answer to this, at least traditionally, is that the answer is to get the modules integrated upstream. Personally, I don't even think this is the biggest area that needs work for a real, compelling live CD. Rather, various pieces of the stateless infrastructure need to be finished and integrated into the core. > There are three alternatives here. 1) We don't care about LiveCDs. If > you want to make a serious LiveCD based on Fedora, you have to fork and > maintain some packages outside of the Fedora arena. Come on, it's not that you _can't_ do a live cd without them. > 2) We get these > integrated into Core despite the fact that they aren't upstream > [Example: GFS] And you'll note that GFS is gone again in the development due to the problems that were had... > 3) We integrate these modules in Extras. We're working on module packaging for Extras. This could potentially be a way to get people who really want squashfs and unionfs but aren't willing to try to push upstream... Jeremy -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
