Re: SUSE 9.2 and ReiserFS

On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 22:45:24 +0000, fransdb wrote:

> Dear Reader,
>
> After looking through many postings on various sites, which was
triggered
> by a kernel panic after installing linux-2.6.11 and later the
standard
> 2.6.8, as well as some diff outputs I must conclude that SuSE has
modified
> their distribution of the ReiserFS system in such a way that they
created a
> vendor locking. Of course, you could adapt the SuSE distribution to
mirror
> the standard kernel distribution, but since we are talking about
many code
> lines - not counting yet the utils affected by this - it's not
really worth
> the trouble.
>
> So, I switched back to ext3, which works always good. Now I can use> standard 9.2 distro and upgrade to what I want and when I want it.
>
> Of course, it would not be the first time I am proven wrong, but I
have
> read that I am not alone thinking this.
>
> In short: SuSE distro's normaly good, but to much tampering with
programs
> and - so it seems - also the kernel itself.
>
> Regards,
> Frans.

I have 4 comps running suse 9.2,some with the standard kernel and one
with
the latest stable kernel.
I configured and compiled the latest kernel for my athlon cpu, all are

running quite happily on reiserfs file system.
not one have any problems.
don