Quoting Yedidyah Bar-David, from the post of Tue, 30 Nov: > Last note - I really do not understand this trend of compiling the > kernel with a modular ext3, while defaulting "/" to be ext3, therefore > forcing you to have an initrd, started by RH7.2. Of course some > hardware will require it anyway, but common hardware won't.
I beg to differ. my hardware is the most common, plain home machine available, and my entire system is ReiserFS-based. reiserfs is compiled static while the ext2/3 are compiled modular for the odd needs of interaction with the outside world. > I stand corrected. Not that they made every effort to minimize the > kernel - e.g., they do have IDE Floppy compiled in, as well as > iso9660 (but IDE CDROM is a module). now those ARE odd decisions :-/ -- Tough act to follow Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
