As a byproduct of the kernel-unsupported package, it is impossible to perform installs with filesystem drivers that exist in the -unsupported package. Specifically, reiserfs is prevented as an option, which it previously was in RHEL AS 2.1. This is a regression, and several customers testing RHEL 3 Beta 1 have comes across this. Anaconda still has the requisite code to use Reiserfs on demand (boot with linux reiserfs), but the module is no longer present in the install environment due to the split. Reiserfs is especially useful in RHEL 3 because of its resize capabilities that ext3 does not currently possess. Suggested Resolution: Move the filesystem modules back into the kernel "supported" package, or do not perform the split for kernel-BOOT.
we are absolutely not in a position to support reiserfs. If reiserfs has online resize that is interesting but we have done zero testing on the correctness of that... (ext3 has offline resize already)
Then by all means, don't support reiserfs. But the installer should let the user install to reiserfs. Bugs arising from that use can be closed immediately. My customers are fine with that. All they see is that competing enterprise distributions aren't "crippled" like this, and in our previous release, this bug didn't exist.
We do not currently support rieserfs. For this reason it was moved to kernel-unsupported in RHEL 3.