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On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 02:47:15PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Alexandre Rostovtsev <tetromino@g.o> |
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> > 1. ext4, not ext3, needs to be recommended as the default filesystem. We |
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> > have kernel 3.2 marked stable, there is no need to keep talking about |
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> > ext4 as if it's something experimental. |
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> I tend to agree here. Not sure we need the full discussion of |
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> filesystems either. Ext4 is probably good enough for everybody, and |
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> mention ext3/2 as more established alternatives. |
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I see no issue putting ext4 as the suggested file system. However, it must |
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be checked on a per-architecture basis (I can only test x86 and amd64 myself |
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- I know, I'm missing all the fun) and preferably brought on by the |
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responsible teams of those architectures. |
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Dropping the (elaborate) explanation on file systems won't win us much. It's |
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not like it is that long - a paragraph per file system type. Even the online |
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help in recent distribution installations provide more information. |
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> I tend to feel the same way about stuff like LILO. |
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I would *really* like to drop LILO and while we are at it, get grub2 working |
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on all systems/architectures and stable ;-) But I'm not going to drop LILO |
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without group consent. |
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> Then again, Gentoo is about choice. It just seems like we're |
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> presenting users with more choices than makes sense for a newbie. If |
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> there is a choice between something that 99.99% of users will want, |
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> and some ancient piece of cruft that still works and is better for |
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> 0.01% of the userbase, does that really have to be in the handbook? |
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Welcome to documentation development. The Gentoo Handbook has always been a |
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difficult source for such discussions. If we truely want to provide |
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information towards our users on all possible choices, you'll need a totally |
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different approach. |
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I once started (before I left Gentoo, rejoined, left again) on a "complete |
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gentoo handbook" that covered much more in greater detail (you'll find the |
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last version at |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/draft/complete/handbook.xml) but I've |
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since moved away from that. Perhaps I should work again on it... |
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Wkr, |
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Sven Vermeulen |
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