Hi Marc, [we should keep this task short, it's etting a bit OT ..] marc lindahl wrote:
you could use ext2 as well since its fully LFS-compliant. ext2 itself was never the problem, but (as someone had already pointed out in here) the VFS-layer in Linux (which was heavily influenced by i386-architecture -> 32bit).
Reading your reference, it looks like SuSe has added LFS recently, but I don't see that RedHat has it (checking the redhat site, only mentions that glibc supports it, and I know from experience that with the standard installation, it doesn't, with 7.0 or 7.1).
OK, perhaps the reference was chosen a bit unluckily, but it was the first one at hand. It does _not_ depend on the Distro you're using, as long as you've got Kernel 2.4.x. (If you don't believe me, at least believe Bill A., who already pointed this out :-) ) Nothing to patch, recompile, or whatever. Just install and go with it.
From my point of view - I'm not going to modify the makefiles of everything and recompile it, from bash on up, so it's an academic distinction, given my platforms (i386 and ppc).
So, currently, 'out of the box', SuSe is good, I believe someone else mentioned debian as well. For redhat, you need an alternative (XFS was painless for me).
Yup and there _are_ reasons to use XFS (jounaling ...), but we shouldn't mix up the topics. ta -------------------------------------------------------------------------- smartferret it-consulting Dipl.-Ing. Linzbichler KEG Dipl.-Ing. Takashi Veikko Linzbichler Tannhofweg 28/3 A-8044 Graz, Austria Tel.: 0316 / 39 89 40 -0 Fax: 0316 / 39 89 40 -20 Mobil: 0676 / 31 26 286 eMail: takashi.linzbichler@smartferret.com WWW: http://www.smartferret.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------