On 8/5/22 13:00, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
Hi folks -
When we introduced reiserfs in SUSE products over 20 years ago, it was a cutting edge file system that brought the protection of journaling to Linux for the first time. In 2006, I proposed moving away from it in openSUSE as the default file system, citing a small and shrinking developer community. These days, while I am technically the maintainer of the reiserfs userspace project upstream. Practically, it's abandoned and I haven't touched it in over 5 years. The kernel implementation gets attention only when updating a common subsystem requires it. It has none of the resiliency features that we've come to expect from modern file systems, and that includes the ability to craft file system images that could result in system crash or possibly compromise.
It's time to let reiserfs go from openSUSE entirely.
So, I propose: - Removing the reiserfs package from Tumbleweed immediately (and fixing any fallout caused by removing libreiserfscore), - Disable the kernel implementation immediately.
I recognize that there may be people out there with disks containing reiserfs file systems. If these are in active use, I would seriously encourage migrating to something actively maintained. If these are sitting on a shelf for archival purposes, GRUB ships with a fuse frontend for all of its file system drivers, including reiserfs. It's not fast but it's enough for data access.
I forgot to mention one important thing. It is also scheduled for
removal from the upstream kernel in 2025:
commit eb103a51640ee32ab01c51e13bf8fca211f25f61
Author: Jan Kara