Bug#351265: base-installer: selectable "full journal" filesystem feature during installation

[lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)]

On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 06:27:39PM +0100, fellow wrote:
> During the partitioning phase of the installation process is an
> opportunity to select extra features for the installable filesystem
> (like notail or xattr support). Modern versions of the reiserfs and ext3
> filesystems support full data journaling (not just metadata). It can be
> turned on with the data=journal fs option in the fstab . Imho it'll be a
> good idea to support this feature during the initial creation of
> /etc/fstab. (Full journaling for reiserfs works only with the 2.6 linux
> kernel seria.)

Also easy to change after installing by editing fstab.  I suspect most
people don't understand what it means, and don't need it.  Might be a
good question for expert mode though.

Len Sorensen