On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 12:39:08AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 01:11:24AM -0700, Sam Powers wrote: > > On Wednesday 11 April 2001 00:25, Ethan Benson wrote > > > /boot works very poorly with quik (oldworld powerpc bootloader) and > > > > Again, the chosen FS doesn't need to be used on all created partitions, but > > the user/admin/whatever should be offered the choice, because the current > > method involves a LOT of moving files around.. much simpler to pick the fs > > you want to begin with. > > sure a choice is fine, never said anything against that, but default no. > i think that a choice should only affect partitions other then / > making / a reiserfs should be a seperate [discouraged] option. Installers should be advised with the merrits of both and warnings about problems with / etc. > > > IMHO reiserfs needs another year or two (at least) to really mature > > > before it should be considered a candidate for the default filesystem. > > It's possibly too early to decide to what extent ReiserFS should be reccomended in the install, this issue should be considered close to the time, however i think it is important that ReiserFS support be in the install disks. Along with further kernel bloat it also requires *more* packages for the disks. > > I totally agree, but it should be a choice. I'd prefer to use it on a fresh > > installation of a desktop system, but I probably wouldn't trust a production > > server to something so new.. > > yup Talking about server development do you think it would be beneficial to include RAID/LVM support, RAID suppport has been in the kernel for a relatively long time, but LVM is newer. Perhaps these could be slated for sid rather than woody, it would certainly help boost Deban in the enterprise sector. > -- > Ethan Benson > http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ rob -- Rob 'robster' Bradford rob@debianplanet.org Founder/Lead Developer: Debian Planet
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