On Sun February 17 2008 00:25:02 Clayton wrote:
What about the people who install openSUSE on a laptop? or on a home PC that is shut down every night? Are we right in expecting them to do tune2fs? An experienced user might not mind, but what about the new users? I understand why Novell chose to set ext3 as the default file system, and I know that if I prefer I can pick any other one from the list when I do my custom partitioning.... but where does that leave our new users... people new to Linux? ...people who have no clue about ext3, Reiser, etc.
That is exactly what I think, Clayton.
Just some questions that really need to be thought about for a future release of openSUSE... I don't know the "right" answer here... but unleashing ext3 and its lengthy forced fsck on unsuspecting new users is not exactly a good thing. As others have noted, there really needs to be some warning... and some control over the ext3 fsck on boot... something an average new user can deal with. (maybe this is something to be discussed on the Project mailing list?)
You may be right that Project or Factory are more appropriate mailing-lists for this discussion. Feel free to move it over there, but I am not subscribed to them atm. I will carry on through the one or two bugzilla enhancement entries (the one for the boot process - bug 344271 - and a new one for Yast, which Phillippe may create, or else I will). -- Carlos FL "It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that." - G. H. Hardy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org