Op woensdag 20 september 2017 08:45:08 CEST schreef Stevens:
On the odd chance that I was ignored for possibly hijacking a thread, I shall start a new one but copy and paste my comments in hope of an answer:
(re: Killing ReiserFS) I have been following this thread with some interest because of having been running ReiserFS since before he turned homicidal. I have had zero, count that ZERO, problems in all that time so I read with some dismay the effort to actively kill its usage in this whatever-you-call-it distro.
I think that the more relevant question to ask is not "can we keep this file system around, pretty please" but "what distros are allowing its use by not actively trying to kill it"? I have used opensuse since before Mandrake went away, which has been a while and, although I don't really want to change distros, I am not married to suse (or leap, or whatever).
I feel that what we have here with opensuse/leap is an example of the classic "swing" cartoon which shows the stages of project development from sales, engineering, installation and what the customer actually wanted. My need is not as complex as some and for that ReiserFS works quite well.
So, my question remains, "If not suse/leap, then who"?
Hopefully someone will know what distros allow the freedom to use whichever FS one wishes without running afoul of the FS nazis.
Summary: * Most distros stopped supporting reiserfs ages ago. * Reiser himself declared reiserfs v3 dead and to be avoided. * Reiserfs4 had 65 downloads over the past 2 years, have a look at all the documentation/wiki, it's all outdated or simply no longer there. * Kernel.org is not going to support reiserfs4. And yes, me too had a couple of old reiserfs partitions with very valuable data ( own music, photo's, video ), total ~750GB. Had, until yesterday. The summary above was reason enough to do some sysadmin work, i.e. backup and restore. All are xfs now to avoid future unpleasant surprises. Call me an idiot. -- Gertjan Lettink, a.k.a. Knurpht openSUSE Board Member openSUSE Forums Team -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org