On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 04:54 -0500, Bryan J. Smith wrote: > Okay, I can thin my comments it out into 3-4 statements total. > But I think the current form is technically misleading. Instead on > focusing on saying what is and isn't experimental, why not say that Red > Hat requires certain functions to work on a filesystem, JFS and ReiserFS > do not, and while XFS does, it's support is still experimental and not > as well tested. Dang, I'm half-asleep. Do-over ... Say something like ... Fedora Core, more than most other Linux distributions, requires the filesystem have extensive kernel/application support. Ext2/Ext3 have a long history on all Linux distributions, so kernel and application support is commonly implemented. This includes kernel NFS services, quotas and Extended Attributes (EAs) for things such as Access Control Lists (ACLs) and Mandatory Access Controls (MACs) like SELinux. ReiserFS is not working on supporting many of these features, which is a show-stopper, and has a long history if compatibility issues with traditional services Fedora Core has been used for. JFS is still missing many of these components, and suffers from the same compatibility history as ReiserFS. While XFS does have extensive support, and SGI has produced releases of XFS for prior Red Hat kernels, Fedora Core has not tested XFS extensive, and there are many known issues with XFS in the Linux kernel (outside of SGI's control). -- Bryan J. Smith b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx http://thebs413.blogspot.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The best things in life are NOT free - which is why life is easiest if you save all the bills until you can share them with the perfect woman -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
