On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Per Jessen wrote:
Patches should be shubmitted through Bugzilla. I don't know what you mean by "offical specs", but I guess you are referring to the source.
I am assuming there are some official specs - otherwise how can someone say "we don't support JFS as root filesystem" and close the bugreport with that reasoning? So somewhere there must be a list of what is supported and what isn't?
Basically this spec would be the list of filesystem that you can choose from in YaST (during the installation).
By the way, why did you start of this discussion again? Some weeks ago we already went through all this...
No, this is different Christoph. My initial issue back then was lack of Installer support for creating JFS file systems - at the time I was led to believe that the installed system should be able to boot off JFS, but now when I report that it can't, I'm told it's also not supported.
Well, I thought we made it very clear in #104870, that we don't support JFS in SUSE Linux 10.0. However, as Chris Mason said, it's still in the kernel and you can use at your own risk.
When I opened bug #115227, it was primarily because I'd recognised that a possible fix was a mere 4 extra characters in INITRD_MODULES.
Sure, it's none of a problem to add jfs to INITRD_MODULES - but it is a problem to really support JFS!
Back to patches - let's assume I go fix this problem such that the Installer properly recognises that the root filesystem is JFS and can correct INITRD_MODULES to include "jfs". Seeing as the bug report was effectively rejected with "not supported", why would my patch be accepted??
In my opinion this patch could be something for future SUSE Linux OSS release, but it's very unlikely to get included in the SUSE Linux retail version, as we would have to support JFS then. Regards Christoph