On 25/06/2014 11:17, Alexandru Juncu wrote: > On 25 June 2014 12:08, Alessandro Selli <alessandrose...@linux.com> wrote: >> Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> On 24/06/2014 17:52, Ingo Wichmann wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> what has reiserfs to do with today's requirements? >>>> >>>> http://wiki.lpi.org/wiki/LPIC-1_Objectives_V4#104.1_Create_partitions_and_filesystems >>>> >>>> Ingo >>>> >>>> >>> >>> LPI is often 3 to 5 yeasrs behind the curve - what is examined isn't >>> today's latest, greatest and best, it is rather yesterday's proven. >>> >>> There's probably a non-trivial number of reiserfs systems still out >>> there and employers except admins to deal with them. >>> >>> Having said that, a time will come when reiser is considered truly eof >>> for LPI purposes and it will be dropped from the exam. I don't know if >>> that time is now yet, but it's worth discussion. >>> >> >> I agree. Reiserfs is indeed legacy, but still in use. I might be >> wrong, but I think major distributions still offer reiserfs an an >> optional FS to format the installation media. > > > Slightly offtopic, but I think LPI should reconsider the 'legacy' policy. > > I think that LPIC-1 at least should be more generic, with only the > things that are widely used (and the things that we know will be > widely used in a couple of years). > > And the things that 'are still in use' but with limited scope, should > be something for the more specialized LPIC-2. > > LPIC-1 is getting to more and more people. Training a lot of people on > things that are used in only a handful of situations, doesn't make > much practical sense. But I do agree that we need specialists that > know how to use some legacy things that are still critical. But that's > why LPIC-2 is an Advanced level and not a Junior level certification. > So detail things should be in LPIC-2 and not in 1.
The most important aspect to consider is the effect on training providers - they can't be expected to update their training docs rapidly, it upsets them. Second thing is what it takes to update the exam with an objective change. This is why objectives are updated on a 2 year cycle (perhaps longer?) and why changes only happen in that window. Discussion can of course happen at any time. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list lpi-examdev@lpi.org http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
