On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 13:40:46 +0200 Richard Brown <RBrownCCB@opensuse.org> wrote:
We haven't supported ReiserFS on new installations since Leap 42.1 (Nov 2015)
That's almost 2 years ago, which is also 8 years after openSUSE stopped using ReiserFS by default and almost 6 years after the bankruptcy of Namesys, the only organisation backing ReiserFS.
https://reiser4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page 2016-06-06 - reiserfsprogs v3.6.25 has been released That's a bit over 1 year ago.
It should be no surprise to anyone that all support for ReiserFS will be withdrawn in Leap 15 (2018). It's a long overdue reflection of a simple reality that has been true for almost a decade now.
That will mean no supported openSUSE version will support ReiserFS with the end of Leap 42.3 support (expected Jan 31 2019).
That will be almost a decade after we started stepping away from ReiserFS - I therefore have little sympathy for any suggestion that this is somehow producing anyone any extra work.
It's going to cause me extra work, somehow transferring my main data and backups to some different filesystem. How is that done, without buying extra hardware, BTW? Being able to rely on linux to continue to support things for decades is one reason I use it. And here it isn't that linux is stopping support, it's just that my [soon-to-be-ex?] favourite distro appears to be going out of its way to try to prevent me continuing to use all of linux.
But if you still haven't gotten rid of that cursed mess of a filesystem in any of your environments, you still have over another year to find & contribute solutions if the work the YaST team have already done is insufficient for you.
All I know is that as a user, it's never given me any grief, unlike ZFS, BtrFS, XFS (and I don't use ext*). What solution is needed? All I can see is extra code in YaST to STOP things working as they were.
- Richard
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