journalling file systems

[Bob Edwards]

Matthew Hawkins wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Damien Elmes wrote:
> > I think the fact that Redhat saw fit to introduce ext3 in their latest
> > distribution says something good.
> 
> The author of ext3 is a Redhat employee, and they've no doubt long been
> embarrased by the fact that their competitor SuSE have included a stable
> journaling filesystem in their distribution for years, one which Redhat
> have never included due to NIH syndrome.
> 

Redhat have had reiserfs in RH7.1 and I think in RH7.0 as well (don't
quote me on the RH7.0 one - my memory is a little flaky these days). I am
using it on both my laptops, one a RH7.1 machine and the other a Debian
"unstable" (I hate that term) machine.

The thing that SuSE do that RH don't is to (easily) allow your root
filesystem to be reiserfs. Other filesystems are not a problem.

Cheers,

Bob Edwards.