rullzer

Since i am aiming on creating an installer partitioner, not a clone of parted, i am wondering how big it should get. For example only ext2 support (ext3 is just an extension and is done afterwards, just as ext4 i guess) and swap? Or also fat?? Well fat was a joke. I’m not going to support fat. Why would we want that on a linux system?

But ReiserFS is a different story. I never used ReiserFS so that is not helping. So i think for now i will just support ext2 and swap. With of course the ext3 extension. That should be sufficient to create a stable system. And is (at least where i come from) most used combination. Maybe in the future more exotic file systems will be added. But like i said the aim lies more on creating a good partitioner as part of an installer than creating a extended parted.

Now some people asked me if i would include ext4 support. The answer to that is no. ext4 is still experimental and with the seeds project we want to create a stable system ready to use. So when ext4 is stable and has advantages over ext3 for the seed project ext4 will be supported.