Nadav Har'El
Wed, 31 Oct 2001 00:22:10 -0800
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001, Shlomi Fish wrote about "[Haifux] Re: My experiences with Mandrake 8.1": > > another (smallish) point in favor of RH7.1: it's the distro that's > > installed in the cs faculty's computer farm -> familiar to the students. Be careful with that argument - it may backfire when someone remembers that there's a certain proprietary operating system that the students are also familiar with :) Anyway, I use Redhat 7.2, and it appears very nice and stable - at least for a desktop/development kind of uses I use it for. It isn't a major leap ahead of Redhat 7.1, but I believe it is worth the upgrade. > In any case, does RH 7.2 supports creating and installing on ReiserFS > partitions? Redhat 7.2 can make reiserfs filesystems (using mkfs or mkreiserfs), mount them, and so on, but there is no convenient way (as far as I know) to install Redhat 7.2 on a new disk while making the newly created partions ReiserFS. If you want ReiserFS for its journaling capabilites, you might consider ext3 (which is prebuilt into Redhat 7.2 and also to the latest Alan Cox kernels) - Redhat's installation lets you create new partions formatted as ext3, and even change existing ext2 to ext3 while upgrading (this, by the way, is a trivial operation because ext3 is a relatively simple extension to ext2). If you plan to use Reiserfs on Redhat 7.1, however, watch out: their kernel has a bug which makes "umount" of reiserfs partions hang in an uninterruptable state - which is extremely annoying. Redhat 7.2 does not have that problem. On my home computer (Redhat 7.2) I have a couple of ext2 partions and one reiserfs partition, and they all seem to be working well. -- Nadav Har'El | Wednesday, Oct 31 2001, 14 Heshvan 5762 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |Tact is the art of making a point without http://nadav.harel.org.il |making an enemy. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://linuxclub.il.eu.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]