On 19/09/17 09:40 AM, Wols Lists wrote:
On 19/09/17 14:17, Per Jessen wrote:
ReiserFS never was part of the kernel, it was always a module.
Uh, gazillions of things are "part of the kernel", as modules.
Uh, actually, as a *supported* filesystem, Reiser should never have been a module. It's far too easy to hose your system by mistake.
Well DUH! There are a gazillion ways to hose your system using other modules! BTDT. But NEVER EVER with ReiserFS. With BtrFS, yes; with XFS, yes; with ext3, yes. NEVER EVER with ReiserFS. Now I'm sure there are others who will post here that they've had/had-not and problem with {XFS,ext2,ext3,ext4,Reiser,NullFS,overlay,....} What does it prove? one thing and one thing only: That people are fallible Big Deal! We knew that. It is, however, not justification for pulling an established and mature file system. If it is then we should pull sysv, XFS and few others as well.
(running gentoo, I have ext and raid4/5/6 compiled in to my kernel, *not* modules. That means my kernel doesn't need external help to read the root filesystem ...)
And what constitutes "extra help"? There is a "yes, it used to be, but we changed all that". There were a number of file systems that you couldn't boot without "extra help", but that went by the wayside with grub2. Please research a little before making assertions about what others cannot do. I get very upset when people try telling me that I can't do, for a pile of theoretical or outdated reasons, that I can't do something I have been doing.
If you are using Reiser for non-root partitions, you should be able to upgrade and then just recompile Reiser support.
It looks as if they are going to pull from the modules. That's how I'm using it now. I don't need it compiled into the kernel. I want my INITRD to be as small as possible. So it does what it has to as fast a possible to get the core system loaded, Defer as much as possible. This has been discussed endlessly in other threads, and I'm not going into it all again here. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org