Install only offers ext2/3?

Elton Woo elwoo at videotron.ca
Thu Oct 16 18:25:21 UTC 2003


On October 16, 2003 01:06 pm, Gordon Messmer , <Gordon Messmer 
<yinyang at eburg.com>> wrote:

> >>linux reiserfs
> >>
> >>will enable those during install.
> >
> > Thanks.  Still, I think it would be better if these options were more
> > visible.
>
> Perhaps they could be, now that Fedora is not a Red Hat product.
> Historically, I believe they were off by default because they were not
> supported by Red Hat.

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.

Elton ;-)
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