[rhn-users] Re: ReiserFS and tuning ext3

[Tom Weeks]

[old reply to an old post.. sorry]
On Saturday 22 April 2006 11:41, Ken Dyke wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 01:01:29PM -0400, Kvetch (kvetch at gmail.com) wrote:
> > Does anyone know why RH stopped supporting ReiserFS after Ent2.1?
>
> I certainly can not speak for RH and may be way of base but I think it
> has to do with extended attributes for support of selinux.

Well *I* heard that Red Hat was wanting to keep all vfs code in common and in 
the base kernel.. and Mr Reiser refused and would not let his vfs code go 
from his filesystem module.  But then we also have no other journaling 
filesystems either (JFS, XFS, etc), so that lends itself to the theory that 
RH is just wanting to upsell their customers to use GFS for everything.  
Anyway, now even if you try to add the reiser module to the Red Hat kernel, 
you'll see that Red Hat went to far as to remove all the "hooks" for even 
including the module in their kernel!  Wow..  That's not cool...  You either 
have to totally hack up the RH kernel manually (which often  breaks the 
"patching house of cards"), or just go ahead and violate the RH support 
contract and switch to a standard kernel.org kernel.  That really sucks.

I'm a big Red Hat guy myself... but I'll be the first to say that this stance 
of theirs is one of their biggest mistakes (right up there with their 
previous stance of leaving out the latest MySQL for licensing reasons).  Just 
plain stupid and they need to give in.

Their stance kind of takes Red Hat out of the "Enterprise OS Circle" if you 
ask me.  If one has fast journaling FS needs, they would be better off either  
running Fedora Core, the modified CentOS kernel, or if you need the 
enterprise SLAs, maybe even SLES (Novel).

Tweeks