I tend not to agree with this opinion. I've used ReiserFS only once, long time ago, and it was enough for me. I heard of problems with it from time to time, the ones that really scared me, were the ones regarding the difficulty of recovering data from a crashed file-system (it can happen, no matter how atomic, it's made by humans). This is still not a reason not to include-it. Linux is still ALL about choice. It's not hard to write a "BIG FAT WARNING!!! ReiserFS[3|4] are here but not supported, thus not recommended, don't bug us if it crashes" style comment in the release notes, and in anaconda. We should leave this choice up to the user. Fedora/RedHat are loosing a lot on stuff like this. I would understand if it would be a file-system that no-one heard of, but so many other serious distros (not that I would use any of them) default to it. It means that it's not an impossible task. If there are bugs in it and the vanilla kernel doesn't fix them, but the SuSE kernel does, is it a shame in taking the patches from their .src.rpm? I should hope not.On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 13:34 -0400, David T Hollis wrote: > I'm sure the ultimate question is: when/if it makes it to the stock > kernel, does Fedora begin to support it? There are those camps that > feel that RedHat has some agenda against reiserfs3/4 for some reason and > intentionally crippled it in the past so people wouldn't use it. > Myself, I doubt that. I think the real answer is a technical opinion that there's no compelling reason to have multiple filesystem choices. Each one is significant extra work to deal with, and it just is not worth it. The extra features in Reiser are effectively useless for desktop, see this blog entry for example: http://log.ometer.com/2004-07.html#28 Maybe Reiser is a bit faster in certain server scenarios, but that's not enough rationale for pulling the whole thing in. Still, it's there for people that want it, but I don't personally get why you'd run it. Havoc
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