<4> post_create: setxatter failed

[Dave Jones]

On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 01:27:49PM -0700, Dan Hollis wrote:
 > On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Russell Coker wrote:
 > > On Wednesday 01 June 2005 01:03, Hans Reiser <reiser at namesys.com> wrote:
 > > > Russell Coker wrote:
 > > > >Hans, there is a bug reported against Reiser3 which has been closed as
 > > > > WONTFIX as it's a ReiserFS kernel issue and ReiserFS is unsupported.  Are
 > > > > you interested in fixing this?
 > > > >https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=159123
 > > > Yes, Edward, can you look into this?
 > > So xattr is now a supported feature in Reiser3?
 > 
 > Not sure what the point is recommending people test unsupported stuff in 
 > Fedora if they're going to be closed WONTFIX anyway... does Fedora want 
 > unsupported stuff tested or not? It would be nice to get an official 
 > statement on the issue.

If you hit bugs in JFS/XFS/Reiserfs, you're pretty much guaranteed not
to get Red Hat folks jumping on those bugs.  There's just not enough
manpower to attack everything (especially with some of those filesystems
being very complicated internally), and hence we narrow the scope of bugs
by limiting the filesystems we class as 'supported'[1].

The best way forward if you must use those filesystems for whatever reason and
you find bugs, is to file them upstream. As Fedora aggressively tracks the
upstream kernel, the faster stuff is fixed there, the faster it gets fixed in
Fedora.

		Dave

[1] Supported is something of a misnomer here given Fedora by its nature
is unsupported, but for sake of argument think "We'll investigate this
bug if it gets filed in bugzilla.redhat.com"