from http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/docs/fedora-faq.txt --cut-- Fedora kernel related questions that get asked over and over... Q. Why doesn't Fedora support Reiserfs ? A. Boot with 'linux reiserfs' Q. What about jfs? A. Boot with 'linux jfs' Q. What about xfs? A. Not yet. Q. What about NTFS ? A. We don't distribute this due to potential legal issues. See http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/index.html Q. Why aren't all these filesystems available by default ? A. Because they are not as heavily tested as ext3 by Red Hat. Q. Why doesn't Fedora just ship the stock kernel.org kernel ? A. The patches we apply are justified for many reasons. - Dropping back to a 'known good' version of a driver. - Updating to a newer version of a driver to whats in mainline that fixes known bugs but for whatever reason, hasn't made it in yet. - Backports of fixes from 'pre/rc' release kernels. - Various new features developed by Red Hat. NPTL, Exec-Shield etc.. - Various often requested features laptop-mode for eg. Q. Can I use a stock kernel.org kernel anyway ? A. Yes. But you obviously lose all the 'add ons'. Q. What about 2.6 ? A. Yes, with caveats. See the documents at.. Q. When I try to compile the Fedora kernel I get.. kernel/kernel.o(.text+0xfc3): In function `schedule': : undefined reference to `active_load_balance' A. This is a bug caused by a limitation in the 2.4 config system. Run make oldconfig twice to work around this. We are working on a better solution. Q. What kernel version does FC1 ship with ? A. kernel-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl This is based on 2.4.22-ac1, and has a number of 2.4.23pre patches also included. --end-- thank you Dave -- HTML mails are going to trash automagically
