On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Blue Lizard wrote:
> Wow. Mr. Murrell gonna send some blood flyin' :P
> j/k
uh oh :P
> We all (even you davey) know better than to put jfs on root unless
> very rooted in that area of expertise and got a good reason. Mdk (and
> its developers) do a very nice job of keeping so many doors (note the
> lack of windows ;p) open for us to improve or fsck whatever we want (of
> course at the same time as keeping neophytes from doing the latter).
I have had reisfer on my root filesystem for months now without problems.
I have heard of people having problems but I still don't understand the
technical reason for not having it as a root filesystem. Luckily Mandrake
puts these modules in the initrd so that I can actually boot the FS.
I did mention that I was aware that Mandrake offers more than one
journaling FS. I do know that RedHat has switched to ext3 for a root FS
(unless I read that incorrectly). I can't say which Mandrake chooses by
default because I haven't run the install since ext3 was added. I
mentioned this too, and if someone could outline the procedure that would
be appreciated.
We are all aware that Mandrake has liked to stay RedHat compatible. So we
know *some* things are done just to be compatible with RedHat. So if
RedHat chooses ext3 by default, there's no reason why Mandrake *can't*
choose it was well. I am not arguing that RedHat compatibility is a bad
thing either, especially from a commercial standpoint.
--
Sincerely,
David Walluck
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