On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 05:01 -0500, Bryan J. Smith wrote: > 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). Actually, I just re-read that and it's too subjective and, worse yet, makes statements on behalf of other entities (which we obviously can't do). I'll come up with a better set of statements after I get some sleep, as well as after I find a few, solid mailing list links. -- 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
