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On 23-Oct-2001 at 20:31:14 Alex Charrett wrote: > It has also occoured to me that while the default RH 7.2 kernel supports > ext3, the release kernels still don't. Therefore I very much reccomend > that you do not install on ext3 if you are likley to want to roll you own > kernel. You can of course get the appropriate ext3 patches, but its a bit > of a pain. > (Catching up on emails...) I think this goes back to a previous message where it was said that Alan Cox was doing the more 'risky' changes. My first thought to that was what was meant by 'risky' but I don't follow all the kernel changes so I let that go :-) I would have said that a new file system was probably one of the most risky things to happen - what if it goes wrong :-) (Albeit that the 2.4.11 kernel was obviously risky in this respect too!) In the light of that I would have thought RedHat would wait until ext3 is included in the kernels rather than to some extent restricting people to their own kernel builds - unless you want to fiddle with kernel patches, etc as you suggest. I'm also surprised since reiserFS seems to be more talked about that ext3, which I heard about some time ago (ext3) but nothing since really. Whereas reiserFS seems to have taken off a bit more than ext3. RedHat may well have done their tests with ext3, but why aren't other people using it then instead of reiserFS? Thanks for the message alex as I was about to order a copy of RH7.2, but I think I may just leave it for a while and see how it goes :-) BTW, kernel 2.4.13 is available on the kernel.org site but not on the UK mirror when I looked this morning. I originally had 2.4.10 installed on a server, fortunately skipped 2.4.11, but when I looked again there was 2.4.12! Now we have 2.4.13 in a very short space of time! A boy just can't keep up with these things! :-) John. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 233914 E-mail: jhorne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx PGP key available from public key servers -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.