ReiserFS in Anaconda?

[Jeremy Katz]

On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 06:09, Michael Davies wrote:
> > Jesse Keating wrote:
> > Why does people want XFS? Any _special_ feature?
> 
> XFS was developed by SGI a while ago and has been in Irix for a longer
> _time_ than any of ext2/3 and reiserfs (not sure on jfs.  ext2 probably
> has had more instances ever run, but I digress).  This speaks for XFS's
> rock solid stability.

Even if you assume existence for a long time implies stability, it only
implies stability under Irix.  The VM and VFS of Linux and Irix are
vastly different in a lot of ways, so it's sort of like saying that
because one SCSI controller is rock solid under one it'll be solid under
the other ;)

*Not* that I'm against other filesystems in general or XFS in
particular.  I just caution against over-generalization.

> As also mentioned here, terabyte filesystems and proper ACLs are included.
>  Important stuff.  I'd be installing XFS be default if anaconda had it.

You have to get past the block layer limitations for terabyte
filesystems to be much of an issue -- 2.6 should help there, but could
do with some testing in this area.  ext[23] will support up to 8 (iirc,
might have been 16) terabyte filesystems.  And ext3 acls are in 2.6 as
well.

Cheers,

Jeremy