On Fri, 21 Jul 2000 at 16:52, cagud . vincent joseph wrote:
>what prevents you from using said cd to mount/fix jijo's disks which
>were created with redhat6.2? can't we do that as long as they support
>the same reiserfs version?
I presume that using a Mandrake 7.1 CD (with a ReiserFS-enabled Linux
kernel) as a bootdisk will enable me to access my ReiserFS partitions. The
only reason why I can't access my ReiserFS partitions from my RedHat 6.2
CD acting as a bootdisk is that it doesn't use a ReiserFS-enabled kernel.
BTW, anyone have any URLs that compare ReiserFS with ext3fs? Or is ext3
too new to be compared to Reiser? I want to compare the two with moderate
consideration for stability under extreme conditions (ie: the various
methods of not cleanly unmounting the partition) and high consideration
for performance and disk space utilization. Hmm?
Oh, and does ext3 have an "official" website? Or are the files in the
kernel FTP sites all there is to it?
And for Ian (this is slightly off-thread-topic) and other Mandrake
"fanatics": I'm slowly (hehehe) being convinced to go Mandrake because
they seem to be more proactive when it comes to releasing useable RPMs of
the latest versions of software. Is this mild observation of mine valid?
Aside from having the "mdk" RPMs, and all those "goodies" that you want to
put in, what makes Mandrake different from RedHat? I don't want a sales
pitch. I want to know how much change (denoted by y as a function of ...
argh ... too much Math 52 [first Calculus of the series in UP Manila] for
me! Hahaha!) I'll be in for. I'm planning an upgrade of the server in the
office, and among the many changes (addition of new hard drive,
repartitioning, use of new filesystem, implementation of md RAID1) I think
I want to move to Mandrake. What do you people think? Any tips for this
potential RedHat convertee? Also, I've never been comfortable with letting
RedHat do the upgrading of an older release on its own. I find that it
meddles too much, so I prefer to do the updating of the packages
one-by-one. Too much work if the upgrade isn't all that worthwhile. How
are things with Mandrake auto-updates from one release to the next
(assuming not too significant a delta between releases, ie: one stable
release to the next stable release, exclusive of all those pre's and
alpha's in between)?
BTW, does Progressive Ideas already sell the latest Mandrake release?
Is/are there an SRPM CD(s)?
TIA everyone! :-)
-+[ Jijo Sevilla ]+-
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