On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 08:24:48PM +0100, Robert Davies wrote: > > ReiserFS is supposed to be pretty stable now, since 2.4.4, I don't think any > fixes for it went into the latest 2.4.5 kernel release. The SuSE distro has > been including Reiser for at least a year now, and by all accounts users are > happy with it. > > So what are the reasons for not using ReiserFS? I read somewhere that even > the latest verson of lilo is starting to support booting from a reiserfs > partition. > > I understand Ed's minimalist approach to using a firewall, but then you > would argue against using Debian, and applying a Linux router project, some > of which do not require a hard disk. Better still boot from CD-ROM and use > read-only filesystems, TMPFS or RAMFS. >
I also understand the minimalist approach I am currently using a Linux Router based product. The reason I want to use a debian based firewall is the easy use of apt-get to upgrade security update and the flexibility of adding intrusion detection and other security based products to my firewall. Kirk Schroeder
