----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean Francois Martinez" <jfm2@club-internet.fr> > On Fri, 3 May 2002 23:31:39 +0200 > "Florian Lindner" <Florian.Lindner@xgm.de> wrote: > > > Hello, > > will it be possible to choose ReiserFS as the filesystem type while > > performing the graphical installation in Redhat 7.2/8.0 ? > What I would like to know is why some people are fetichistic about > ReiserFS. While since some people have ReiserFS partitions > I understand the need for supposrting ReiserFS in > upgrades a thing RedHat 7.2 and I think 7.1 provided, I fail to see > why anyone would want to set a NEW ReiserFS partition. Contrarily > to ext3 it does not keep data coherency, its partitions cannot be > read by older kernels and it does not allow upgrade in place. > Contrarily to XFS it does not support ACLs and it suffers of > performance hiccups who make it unusable for streaming. It also > looks like it is slower than XFS and I have noticed in some cases > it is quite slow > at recovering from crashes while XFS is ever blindingly fast. > Contrarily to JFS it cannot be resised on the fly. > > So what is so special about ReiserFS? I very much like the idea of B*-trees as a filesystem. I also would prefer XFS over ReiserFS but for now it's too much trouble for me to first install a distribution with another filesystem (I need to make a new clean install) and then convert to XFS. Or is the next Redhat release supporting XFS as a installation option? I see that the XFS homepage is providing modified installers, do anyone have experiences with these installers? How long after the Redhat release do it usually lasts until they relase a installer? I would like Redhat to support more filesystems out of the box and as a option during the installation (JFS, XFS, ReiserFS, ...). Greets, Florian _______________________________________________ Redhat-devel-list mailing list Redhat-devel-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
