On Wednesday 02 April 2003 11:44 am, Rick Johnson wrote: > Kevin Freeman wrote: > > RedHat has stated that > > they do not support ReiserFS because there are cases in which the file > > system can become corrupted. > > I thought that myth was debunked a while back on one of the Red Hat lists. > It was my understanding that such corruption was only possible using > earlier versions of the ReiserFS driver? > I suspect that RH supports EXT3 because they devoted significant resources toward its development and, in their business model, it is what they choose to support (and it's _their_ business). They do provide "unofficial" support for ReiserFS as a root partition, just not in LVM mode for updates, it appears. As a consumer, I would prefer to see broad support for different filesystems so I could choose "the right tool for the job". Since filesystem design (or any design for that matter) seems to be one of compromises, I suspect that EXT3 may not be the best filesystem in _all_ cases. -- Hoyt Duff http://www.maximumhoyt.com/
