ps. You still didn't answer my question about how not compiling ext2 into the kernel brakes everything. Don't worry, it was a rhethorical question.
It's not rhetorical - it might not break it, it might break it... The point is: it's not tested by RH, it's not tested by CentOS, it probably (okay 99.99% here) works in a vanilla kernel - but does it work after all of RH's patches have been applied? It probably does, _BUT_ do we guarantee it? NO. It just might break, and if it does _YOU_ get to keep the pieces and don't say we didn't warn you (and the breakage may very well be silent and result in a corrupted disk (etc.) three months from now). Sure, ext2 seems like something that shouldn't break, but one would think the same of many other options - some of which DO break, and perhaps even silently at that (or at least silently until your system crashes and you lose your data).
Cheers, MaZe.
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On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 11:53:35PM +0200, Maciej Żenczykowski wrote:
ps. You still didn't answer my question about how not compiling ext2 into the kernel brakes everything. Don't worry, it was a rhethorical question.
It's not rhetorical - it might not break it, it might break it... The point is: it's not tested by RH, it's not tested by CentOS, it probably (okay 99.99% here) works in a vanilla kernel - but does it work after all of RH's patches have been applied? It probably does, _BUT_ do we guarantee it? NO. It just might break, and if it does _YOU_ get to keep the pieces and don't say we didn't warn you (and the breakage may very well be silent and result in a corrupted disk (etc.) three months from now). Sure, ext2 seems like something that shouldn't break, but one would think the same of many other options - some of which DO break, and perhaps even silently at that (or at least silently until your system crashes and you lose your data).
Or perhaps causes a breakage in a different part of the code, a part that is, from the user perspective, completely unrelated to ext2.
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