I couldn't find any credible information on the OPENSUSE homepage about the future of Reiser4 filesystem support in SUSE Linux. It will take some (read: a long?) time until Reiser4 might be available in the vanilla kernel. Will Novell/SUSE support Reiser4 despite of the fact that it's not in the vanilla kernel (similar to the situation we had when ReiserFS v3 was introduced)? It seems as if the support was dropped in the latest beta release according to heise.de (I don't have beta releases here, so I can't verify that statement)... Cheers, Th.
Thomas Hertweck schrieb:
Will Novell/SUSE support Reiser4 despite of the fact that it's not in the vanilla kernel?
No. Each kernel patch has to be carried around nearly infinitely because people start to depend on it and that causes unnecessary workload for the kernel developers inside SUSE. The 10.1 beta releases have a lot less kernel patches than previous releases and the goal is to have a vanilla kernel. This has a few advantages: - Features in vanilla kernels will not change their interfaces - Features in vanilla kernels will not simply go away - Features in vanilla kernels are subject to peer review - Bug-searching tools are only applied to mainline kernels - There is no patch which has to be kept up to date Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/
Thomas Hertweck
I couldn't find any credible information on the OPENSUSE homepage about the future of Reiser4 filesystem support in SUSE Linux. It will take
It was never supported ;-). We only added it as experimental filesystems - you could e.g. not add it via the yast partitioner.
some (read: a long?) time until Reiser4 might be available in the vanilla kernel. Will Novell/SUSE support Reiser4 despite of the fact that it's not in the vanilla kernel (similar to the situation we had when ReiserFS v3 was introduced)? It seems as if the support was dropped in the latest beta release according to heise.de (I don't have beta releases here, so I can't verify that statement)...
It was dropped with the first beta AFAIR. For 10.2 we'll add some extra warning if you use a filesystem that is not supported... Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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Andreas Jaeger
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Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
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Thomas Hertweck