On Wednesday 01 June 2005 10:58, Dan Hollis <goemon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > If you hit bugs in JFS/XFS/Reiserfs, you're pretty much guaranteed not > > to get Red Hat folks jumping on those bugs. There's just not enough > > manpower to attack everything (especially with some of those filesystems > > being very complicated internally), and hence we narrow the scope of bugs > > by limiting the filesystems we class as 'supported'[1]. One thing that Dave didn't mention is that our lack of ability to fix bugs in ReiserFS does not mean it's a waste of time to test such things. Hans now has his people working on fixing this bug, and if nothing else it is now a known issue so other people can avoid wasting time on it. > Actually the problem here is that these bugs appear to be regressions in > the fedora _installer_ (which is why they were filed against anaconda). > That is, they are not related to kernel bugs (you cannot even install > reiserfs with selinux *disabled*). But they are summarily closed WONTFIX > which I find troubling. I have just installed a machine with ReiserFS as the root file system. I booted the installer with "selinux=0 reiserfs" and did a minimal install. Things worked fine, the machine booted, and I've logged in as root. Please tell me exactly how you caused the installer to break. > Something is busted in the installer, a regression from FC3. Silent > failures, install corruption, etc. It might indicate more serious general > problems lurking about in the installer. But it gets closed WONTFIX > without even a second thought. The corruption is file system corruption. It is a bug in ReiserFS. > Worse yet I ran into an x86_64 bug yesterday where the kernel would panic > on the installer if you had unclean xfs partitions in your system (even > if you were only installing ext3). Why bother reporting when these things > get instantly closed WONTFIX because they have "xfs" in them? File a bug report. Anything that prevents an ext3 install should be considered to be a serious bug. Regardless of whatever happened to be on your hard disk before you started the install you should be able to complete a regular install. -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page