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[John Andersen <jsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 13 May 2007, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> The Sunday 2007-05-13 at 11:52 -0800, John Andersen wrote:
> > Ext2 and 3 are equally candidates for dead-end-ism.
> > The only reason suse re-emphasized ext2/3 is because
> > RedHat does all the maintenance for them.
>
> Its more complex than that. SuSE people explained in detail at the time
> why they were no longer pushing reiserfs as default at install time.

True, but I was only addressing why they chose to focus on Ext2/3
instead of XFS (or JFS or insert favorite)  once they made the decision to 
switch away from Reiser.  

It certainly wasn't done for technical reasons, seems like mostly a cost 
issue.



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