Donald A. Tevault wrote: > Agreed. reiserfs is my favorite fs for my desktop systems, and I almost > always use it when I have a choice. > > So, I say, leave it on the exam. It's still a valid option.
What some people here do not seem to appreciate is that there is considerable latency between the time something happens at the cutting edge of Linux development and the time something shows up (or disappears from) the LPI exams. It is safe to say that ReiserFS no longer represents the state of the art in Linux file systems, and AFAIK no distribution uses it for new default installations anymore. However, there are probably thousands of active SUSE Linux Enterprise Server sites that have let themselves be sweet-talked into installing ReiserFS (SUSE did make it look like a good idea at the time). Many of these sites are likely to stay with it until support for their SLES releases ends, i.e., years from now, just to avoid the transition, and as LPIC graduates are not entirely unlikely to be associated with SLES shops it makes sense to keep ReiserFS on the exams for approximately the same time. (Anyway, as file systems go, ReiserFS is a fairly soft exam topic as there aren't so many knobs to twiddle. It's not as if you had to learn stuff like e2fsck and tune2fs for ReiserFS.) Simply because Ubuntu and Fedora include something very new doesn't mean it has to be added to the exams the next day (e.g., we can probably live without questions on Upstart for a couple of years yet). Similarly, if something has been removed from the very newest distributions that doesn't imply that it is no longer relevant at all and ought to be excised from the exams ASAP. In general, the content of the "enterprise" distributions (RHEL, SLES, Debian GNU/Linux "stable") is a much better indicator of what the LPIC exams should be based on. Anselm (This is my personal opinion and not that of Linup Front GmbH.) -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- & Netz-Schulungen Linup Front GmbH, Postfach 100121, 64201 Darmstadt, Germany [email protected], +49(0)6151-9067-103, Fax -299, www.linupfront.de _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
