[arch-general] Better NILFS2 Support

[Dan McGee]

On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Tobias Powalowski <t.powa at gmx.de> wrote:
> Am Sonntag 01 August 2010 schrieb Dieter Plaetinck:
>> On Sun, 1 Aug 2010
> 16:46:33 +0200
>>
>> Heiko Baums <lists at baums-on-web.de> wrote:
>> > I don't
> think that nilfs-utils should be moved to the base group. I
>> > agree with
> moving it to [core] but not to base, because base is
>> > assumed to be
> installed on every computer and packages in the base
>> > group are usually
> not listed in the depends array of a PKGBUILD.
>> >
>> > On the contrary I
> think there could be some other file system tools
>> > like jfsutils, lvm2
> and xfsprogs be removed from the base group (not
>> > from [core]).
>>
>> I
> think this explanation makes sense.  I just found this back:
>>
> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Allan/Base_Cleanup
>> So indeed, it
> seems like the goal is to remove all non-essential things
>> (reiserfs, xfs,
> ..) from base.
>>
>> > They probably should be automatically installed if a
> partition is
>> > formatted with one of these filesystems by AIF. But usually
> people who
>> > are using these filesystems know what they are doing and know
> that
>> > they have to select these packages for installation.
>>
>> Actually
> it's fairly trivial to "preselect" those packagas based on the
>> filesystems
> used during the filesystem step.  I believe some of it is
>> already
> implemented in aif.
>>
>> Dieter
> My 2 cents about nilfs,
> I have added it to
> archboot environment some time ago.
> To integrate it into an installer it is
> plain not usable, because the kernel doesn't know it.
> All usual filesystem
> utilities like blkid etc. don't recognize it.
> Sure it will be an optional
> filesystem in the future, but it should be supported by the kernel and major
> filesystem and core utiltities in a sane way.

Except that I've seen it running on his root partition on a booting
laptop without any of these problems you speak of...

-Dan