[fab] Filesystems support in Fedora
seth vidal
skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Mon Jul 17 21:10:12 UTC 2006
On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 02:33 +0530, Rahul wrote:
> Hi
>
> Ext3(ext2) are the only formally supported on disk filesystems in Fedora
> apart from GFS for clustering. There is a limited option for other
> filesystems like reiserfs, xfs and jfs which doesnt go much beyond
> packaging what upstream provides and which is only meant to be
> transiently used for people migrating off such filesystems.
>
> Moving such tools to Fedora Extras doesnt help since Anaconda wouldnt
> support it during installation time. I am not sure this would make sense
> even if Anaconda gets support for Fedora Extras. Community participation
> on such things tend to be limited due to the amount of expertise
> required. The large impact of such a core piece of technology needs to
> be taken into account here.
>
> I believe it is better to get them supported or drop them completely
> instead of the current status quo which leads to a less tested and
> potentially dangerous option being provided to provided to end users
> (though they have to enable it explicitly). Without good support, things
> like SELinux in reiserfs to pick a example would end up being broken now
> and then and that isnt a good thing at all.
>
> Realistically we need to make a hard choice on this. explain that well,
> stick to that and make sure that support well what we do rather than
> provide a multitude of half baked options (kernel-unsupported comes to
> mind for those aware of the pains we had with it).
>
Why wouldn't this sort of technical decision be made by the installer
maintainers?
-sv
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