Re: Distributions with out-of-the-box Reiser4 support?

[michael chang <thenewme91@gmail.com>]

On 8/10/05, David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com> wrote:
> > So, to date, we have yet to see any recently released operating
> > systems with native out-of-the-box root Reiser4 support, it seems...
> 
> Wasn't there something about yoper?

Yeah, there was, although someone discounted it for being a year old
release... [compared to Debian Sarge, that's pretty new...].

> > *sigh* Oh well... I guess we won't see it until we see it in vanilla
> > kernel and/or when the recompressor and/or resizer are ready... or
> > someone takes an initiative.
> 
> If I was running a distro, I'd put big fat warnings around a non-default
> option for Reiser4, until the repacker was done.  Then I'd make it the

This is what the Kernel Config does -- so no one will build with it
[they're scared it'll break something].

> default FS, and mark ext3 as "legacy" ;)

Then I'd have to modify the installer and the kernel now.  And again
every time Reiser4 makes a major leap.  [Not to mention I've yet to
see one person singlehandedly do a full distro -- a livecd /maybe/,
but probably not.]  Logically, the maintainers will wait until
something is reasonably stable, and put it in when they're nice and
ready.  *shrugs*  Besides, how many of them are on a release cycle
anyways?  But yeah, ext3 could be marked as legacy.  That said, I'm
not going to go as far as to remove it from my kernel. [What if I want
to put my kernel on a ext2/3 boot partition?]  ^^

-- 
~Mike
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