On 17:50 18 Feb 2003, Pavel Rozenboim <pavelr@coresma.com> wrote: | From: David.Grudek@anixter.com [mailto:David.Grudek@anixter.com] | > Does anyone know why different filesystems are available on so many of the | > other distro's but Red Hat does not support them. Mandrake, Suse, Debian, | > Slackware, and others do support xfs. It handles acl's natively and Red Hat | > took out acl support in there new kernel yet they won't support filesystems | > that do support ACL's. [...] | | Probably because it is much harder to support all these filesystems. The | fact that RedHat doesn't just throw in every piece of software it can grab | allows them to create very stable and supportable distro. Further, nothing prevents you building a new kernel with the support you want. ACLs are generally overrated anyway. Very rarely do I want one. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 cs@zip.com.au http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ Those who live by the sword KILL those who don't. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
