>>> On Thu, Mar 1, 2007 at 8:35 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael MacIsaac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> that compared various filesystems. > But, you might also consider the long- term plans for ReiserFS and JFS. It > seems the distributors/community is standardizing on ext<n> file systems. > > Commnents?
I cannot speak for what will happen with SLES, but the openSUSE project has made ext3 the default file system, while still shipping reiserfs. I would imagine that discussions are taking place about whether to do that in SLES or not. From what I've read about the openSUSE project's deliberations on this, it had nothing to do with Hans Reiser's legal problems, but rather just the number of people in the world that were working on the file system itself. (Along with some issues about changes between version 3 and version 4, I think.) Someone outside of Novell told me that JFS was being "deprecated" in SLES. I.e., it might be there, but it won't be supported, and it might not be there at some point in the future. (I think this was mentioned in the release notes for SLES10.) Starting with RHEL (3?), Red Hat has only supported ext2/ext3, and _not_ shipped any others. So, no reiserfs, JFS, XFS, or anything like that. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
