On 19 September 2017 at 13:54, Anton Aylward <opensuse@antonaylward.com> wrote:
On 19/09/17 07:40 AM, Richard Brown wrote:
We haven't supported ReiserFS on new installations since Leap 42.1 (Nov 2015)
Funny, it was there when I upgraded to 42.2. I'm not on 42.3 yet.
Like I said, we haven't supported ReiserFS on new installations an upgrade is the antithesis of a new installation
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.
It should be no surprise to anyone that all support for ReiserFS will be withdrawn in Leap 15 (2018).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.
Thank you for the emotional and irrational, though rationalized, knee-jerk, heavy handed response, Richard.
By this logic there are many file systems that continue to exist as supported modules in the current and upcoming releases that should also be removed. Take, for example, the old UNIX V7 file system -- 'sysv'. The last distribution that used that was SCO. How long have they been bankrupt?
And then there's 'minix'.
Neither sysv nor minix are supported filesystems by the openSUSE Project in any of the openSUSE distributions or our other sub-projects. Their lack of appearance in any of our tooling (YaST, kiwi, etc) are exactly the sort of thing users can expect for ReiserFS in the future. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org