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curzer
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Joined: 2006/04/07 06:12:27

truth in advertisment

Post by curzer » 2006/04/07 06:55:49

Hey Folks,

After 3+ years on mandrake 9.1 I decided it was time to move on.
I sat down and read a bunch, honed in on CentOS, went through this site,
loved the concept, decided to go for it, installed and all ...

.. only to discover that CentOS (RHEL) does not officially support ResierFS
or NTFS (and others).

Now, my box is dual boot and my Linux /home is on reiserfs, and XP on ntfs.

I read on and found CentOSPlus, installed that kernel, got it to corrupt
my reiserfs data (on that in a more appropriate forum) etc etc.

Bottom line of why this post is in THIS forum - you guys don't do it for money.
Why not have the shortcomings of RHEL in bold font on your *front page* so
us simple folks will know what we're getting into.
Placing reiserfs and ntfs under unsupported is a biggy...
Wish I'd known it before.
(and like I said I read a bunch on CentOS before choosing it,
inc. the RHEL 4 installation guide that *avoids* this issue entirely...).

I don't want it to sound as if I'm ungrateful for all the hard work.
I'm just suggesting that as a community enterprise you also set an example
in telling the truth, the whole truth, inc. listing the downsides where people can plainly
see them and decide whether CentOS is for them or not.

curzer
Posts: 3
Joined: 2006/04/07 06:12:27

Re: truth in advertisment

Post by curzer » 2006/04/07 07:26:53

the [url=http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=3635&forum=27]reiserfs corruption story[/url]
for those interested in it.

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