Guys,
Here's the reason by one of RH developers why ReiserFS isn't
included in the install option for the filesystem.
>"Reynald I. Ngo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Guys,
> >
> > Let's start a new thread here... What are your wish lists for
> > 7.2 (roswell)? I'll start...
>
>1) We haven't announced that we'll be doing any 7.2 release
>2) If we did, it certainly wouldn't be called Roswell.
>3) Since we've already had a couple of public betas, we're very
> unlikely to change the featureset significantly now.
>4) We still don't trust reiserfs, and if it breaks when included, we
> get the blame and support costs. So we don't enable it. The
> infrastructure for adding it is there (turn on a switch in the
> code), it's purely the filesystem issues which made sure it wasn't
> turned on in Roswell 1 and 2. A filesystem is not something to do
> experimentally - if we add a package foo, and it breaks, most of
> the time it isn't a disaster. For a filesystem, it would be one -
> even if it only failed for 1 in 100, that would still cost
> thousands of users their data. A risk we can't take. Others feel
> differently, and included it at a time the author later stated it
> wasn't ready. We avoided the problem.
>
>--
>Trond Eivind Glomsr�d
>Red Hat, Inc.
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