installation of 6.10, no reiserfs?

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Thu Jan 25 23:19:39 UTC 2007


bryann wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 20:58 +0100, Joan Tur wrote:
>> Es Dijous, 25 de Gener de 2007 20:13, en Uwe Brauer va escriure:
>> | Hello
>> |
>> | I have used Debian unstable for years and tried to install Kubuntu. In
>> | step 4 I have to resize the disk and to chose the file system for the
>> | different partions. To my surprise I find among o
>> | not reiserfs. Is there any reason, or shall I select that option in a
>> | different way?
>> Reiser is available through the alternate CD  ;)
>> 
> I don't know how many and if other people work on maintenance of Reiser
> FS  but: but the author has recently been arrested for murdering his
> wife. It is not clear if Reiser FS will continue at this time.

Whether true or not, making it available _only_ on the alternate CD seems a
little extreme, since the last time I did a full install of Ubuntu I'm
fairly sure it defaulted to Reiser.

(In fact, this time I did everything with XFS because I have become somewhat
disillusioned with Reiser).
-- 
derek





More information about the kubuntu-users mailing list