Sascha Wehnert wrote
If the outcome should be a supported setup, then ext4 is definitely not the way to go. We will not support it on SLE11.
You are definitely taking the wrong approach. There is no reason why you couldn't add ext4 as "it's availabe, but not supported, use on your own risk" feature as you do it with many others (like lpr or lilo). Your (=Novells) approach is like Apple one's, "No no, we decide what you are allowed to do, we won't even let you try it on your own risk!" The problem is that you are really way behind from a feature-point-of-view with SLE 11. It was ok when you released a new SLE every two years, but if you do not add new functionality with a SP release, SLE becomes kind of unusable. SLES 12 is planned for 2013. Do you really think that we can stay at the same technological level for 4 years? That might be ok for industrial customers, but you will definitely lose support in the universities environment. Not even talking about SLED where we will need Mesa/Gallium3D support during the next year. I would bet that SP2 won't have it. Knowing that ext4 will not be in SP2 really makes us think about alternatives. Have you ever done a fsck on a 20 TB raid with ext3? And compared that to ext4? The downtime is one day compared to half an hour. We are running all our storage raids with ext4 and had no problem ever for two years. But now we need the functionality to add ext4 during installation and it is a hassle because AY cannot even create a fstab with the word "ext4" in it, so even with scripting it is a big problem. I'm hacking a lot in the kernel etc., but I'm not going to add ext4 to AY, that's too much effort. It sounds like we have to switch to opensuse and use SLE only to replicate a problem on it when we need support. I'm not a stupid IT worker in some company. I'm a qualified system administrator in a research environment. That's a difference. Give me the features that are there and tell me that they are not supported. But let *me* decide if I use them on my own risk or not. Otherwise SLE really turns from Linux into some kind of Mac OS. cu, Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049 * Rekursion kann man erst verstehen, wenn man Rekursion verstanden hat. * -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help@opensuse.org