Install only offers ext2/3?

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Thu Oct 16 20:39:56 UTC 2003


> AFAIK, the "official" Red Hat stand is that resierfs is still sufficiently 
> unstable that they *don't* include it in the defaults. Installing with 
> "linux reiserfs" is considered to be AYOR. See previous discussions
> WRT reiser in the shrike-list.

Its at your own risk because its not subject to serious testing with things
like the improvements and 2.5 backport code. Not because reiserfs is
intrinsically unstable or flawed. 

I just want to make the distinction clear because its not an attempt so
say reiserfs sucks or imply that.





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