Hi, I decided to switch all my systems from Archlinux to CRUX and I am very happy. I would like to suggest a small modification to the Handbook (and, secondly, to the CRUX page in distrowatch). In the 3.2 section of the handbook, the following utterance confused me during installation: "Using ReiserFS is recommended, but there is support for Ext2fs/Ext3fs, XFS and JFS as well". In the CRUX page in distrowatch: http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=crux it appears that CRUX supports only two journaled filesystems, i.e. reiserfs and XFS. In the mailing list archives I found that the problem has been discussed in May 2006 and the recommendation of reiserfs was declared by Per Lidén to be a relict of the times where reiserfs was the only journaled filesystem. Nowadays, there is no reason to recommend a journaled filesystem over another and any potential CRUX user should be able to choose the filesystem which is better for his system and which he likes more. Thus I suggest to change the formulation in the handbook to: "CRUX supports all the filesystems supported as root filesystems by the linux kernel: ext2, ext3, JFS, reiserfs, XFS". The indication in distrowatch seems to me just a mistake, since it suggests that one cannot use ext3 or JFS in CRUX. However, I am aware that distrowatch is much less important than the handbook. Giorgio Lando
On 2007-07-04 at 20:51, Giorgio Lando wrote:
Thus I suggest to change the formulation in the handbook to: "CRUX supports all the filesystems supported as root filesystems by the linux kernel: ext2, ext3, JFS, reiserfs, XFS".
I'd drop the "all the filesystems supported as root filesystems by the linux kernel" part, but I agree that recommending a filesystem doesn't seem all that justified. - Antti
On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 17:56 +0300, Antti Nykänen wrote:
On 2007-07-04 at 20:51, Giorgio Lando wrote:
Thus I suggest to change the formulation in the handbook to: "CRUX supports all the filesystems supported as root filesystems by the linux kernel: ext2, ext3, JFS, reiserfs, XFS".
I'd drop the "all the filesystems supported as root filesystems by the linux kernel" part, but I agree that recommending a filesystem doesn't seem all that justified.
This has been discussed before: http://www.linuxarkivet.se/mlists/crux/0605/msg00003.html and, more importantly, Per's explanation in http://www.linuxarkivet.se/mlists/crux/0605/msg00011.html
This has been discussed before:
http://www.linuxarkivet.se/mlists/crux/0605/msg00003.html and, more importantly, Per's explanation in http://www.linuxarkivet.se/mlists/crux/0605/msg00011.html
I was aware of this thread and referenced it above (but only implicitly, so thanks for the links). I dared to revitalize the argument only because it seemed to me that in the discussion everybody (including Per) had agreed to remove the recommendation, without finally removing it. About distrowatch, if nobody objects, I would ask directly distrowatch to fix the list of journaled filesystems supported by CRUX. Giorgio Lando
Upon my request, the list of supported journal filesystems in distrowatch ipage for CRUX has been amended. http://www.distrowatch.com/crux Giorgio Lando
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