Christoph Thiel wrote:
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).
OK, that makes some sense. Who decides what goes in that list?
Sure, it's none of a problem to add jfs to INITRD_MODULES
Well, that is _all_ I asked for in 115227. Nothing more, nothing less.
- but it is a problem to really support JFS!
I'd like to understand why it's a problem to support JFS - SuSE did it right up until 9.3, and given that it works fine, why has it suddenly become a problem now?
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.
I have no problem with that - the Retail boxed version is obviously a SuSE product to which different rules apply. I would just like to understand if there's a risk of a perfectly good patch being ignored because "we don't support it" - after all, it would undoubtedly take me considerable effort to make such a patch. /Per Jessen, Zürich