Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (464 mails)

[Eberhard Moenkeberg <emoenke@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Jens Nixdorf wrote:
> Am Samstag, 23. Februar 2008 schrieb Per Jessen:

> > Besides, I doubt if ext4 will never make into openSUSE:
> >
> > - lack of customer requests.
>
> not yet. Look at the growth rate of needed diskspace in the last years. 
> > - doesn't really meet any needs that cannot be handled by other
> >   file systems in the distro
>
> SCNR: AFAIR a manager of IBM said something like this: "Noone will ever 
> need more than 8 kByte of Memory..."
> > - Novell QA is not testing ext4 nor are any of Novells partners.
>
> Someone will do it if its time to. Maybe from other distros. 
> > - If you run into a problem with ext4, there is no support available  
> >   from the openSUSE kernel maintainers.
>
> same like above.

You missed the context of these counterstatements. ;-))


Viele Grüße
Eberhard Mönkeberg (emoenke@xxxxxxx, em@xxxxxxx)