> 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.)
Debian also defaults to ext3. Others are present, but not particularly encouraged. XFS has gotten good press for the cases where JFS or reiserfs was originally recommended. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
