On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
>
> Are any of the distro vendors taking _any_ interest? I'm still
> perplexed that the distro vendors haven't seriously looked at XFS,
> or at least it appears they have not. IMHO, it's time for them to
> "step up to the plate" and start supporting a JFS that does all they
> want.
I agree. It's frustrating. I have RH7.1 on my K7. Out of the box,
I can pick ext2 (ick) or reiser (ickier). Along with some stability
problems I've heard about (in re reiserfs), it annoys me that there
is no dump/restore functionality for that fs (an no immediate plans).
XFS is a PITA for me, since I run win98 under win4lin (unlike vmware,
who can run as a pure module architecture, win4lin requires several
thousand lines of patches). Getting the XFS patches to co-exist with
the win4lin patches has not been pleasant.
> BTW, I see RedHat has added the Ext3 patch to their 2.4.5-0.2.9
> release, but I've see nothing but "problems" on the Ext3 list
> (although a lot are Ext2 issues under 2.4.x as well). IMHO, I think
> Tweedie/RedHat should just focus on getting full data journaling
> complete (I'm still wondering why I tried to do meta-data
Amen!
|