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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
