As a conclusion; If you already have partition(s) which are JFS and/or Reiserfs from a previous operating system, such as Mandrake, SuSE and vice versa (these distros do support installion of reiserfs and jfs filesystems) Then RedHat's installer Anaconda can initialize them and reformat them to ext2 and/or ext3 (with losing existing data of course). So the only way that RedHat supports reiserfs, jfs is the discovery of them and the duty is the reformat them. Red Hat chooses ext3/2 for its proven stability and wide-use. Reiserfs (i did not test v.4 by the way) is not so stable and can cause loss of data, its approximately same for the jfs (which is more stable than reiserfs i think) Considering these, Red Hat does not support installation with reiserfs and jfs and also xfs. This is my knowledge which i grapped from the discussion list of both Psyche and other older versions of RedHat. Cheers :) Hakan Terzioglu ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Durst" <ddurst@larubber.com> To: <psyche-list@redhat.com> Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 11:17 PM Subject: Re: Reiserfs and Redhat 8.0 :) | > On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 12:18, Miloslav Trmac wrote: | > | >> > > reiserfs and jfs are "totally unsupported" in the installer, grep | >> the anaconda source for a way to enable it. | >> > | >> > I wonder how much arm twisting it would take to get RH to add this? | >> | >> You misunderstood me. You can install on reiser or jfs with the | >> current installer. | > | > Ok, sorry. It seemed like you were saying you had to do some source | > hacking before you could actually install with the other file systems. | > Someday I'd like to try jfs. Someday. | | Ok maybe I missed a post but does someone actually say how to | install Reiser and JFS using the installer?????? | | As a side note RH doesn't have to SUPPORT experimental features, | just add a section call EXPERIMENTAL install. | | | | | -- | Psyche-list mailing list | Psyche-list@redhat.com | https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list | -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
