CentOS - Apr 2006 - newbie kernel question (fwd)

> 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 ?enczykowski
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.

[]s

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