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ReiserFS (was: Mandrake 7.0 is here...)
I was curious to know: What will be the first distribution to include
full ReiserFS?
SuSE 6.3 includes something, but it was a version BEFORE the
journaling, so the main feature of ReiserFS is not there...
Mandrake heard about it only a day after the code freeze of 7.0, so
it didn't find its way into the package (Ira, please fix me if I'm
wrong; I hope I'm wrong...).
There is a long time till the next RedHat (7.0, which will hopefully
include kernel 2.4.?, XFree86-4.0, etc.).
Contrary to most of the other packages, which can be installed very
easily AFTER the OS already runs, ReiserFS is something which is
very important to include in the core distribution, because of the
following reasons:
1. It is very hard to ADD ReiserFS to exisiting system (formats,
backup/restore of partitions, etc.).
2. Some of the features of ReiserFS are impossible when it is not a
part of the core OS (like using it fot the root partition).
3. Addition of ReiserFS to exisiting OS involves patching the kernel
which is a dangerous thing (don't think about the last time you
patched the kernel; think about the cases where two different
patches patch the same file, and that sometines such a thing may
fail).
Maybe one of the zillion RedHat derivatives (Mandrake and Definite
started their way as RedHat derivatives too...), which try to be
100% compatible with RedHat but to add new features, will take this
challenge, and release a Linux distribution but with ReiserFS
support?
--
Eli Marmor
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