On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 05:04 -0500, Bryan J. Smith wrote: > 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). As has already been said, it may not need much detail. The important points are probably that ReiserFS doesn't yet support key features x, y and z, and XFS isn't suited or reliable for standard setups. I tagged that myth on after an IRC discussion about unreasonable user requests - people semi-regularly claim that Fedora should support/default to ReiserFS (as SUSE does, I think) because it's supposedly faster or cleverer or whatever, and that XFS is l33t, so it should be a standard installation option. -- Stuart Ellis stuart@xxxxxxxx Fedora Documentation Project: http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/docs/ GPG key ID: 7098ABEA GPG key fingerprint: 68B0 E291 FB19 C845 E60E 9569 292E E365 7098 ABEA
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