upstream reiserfs support for trixie? [was Re: btrfs-progs: reiserfs support optional?]

From	Nicholas D Steeves <sten@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.kernel, linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject	upstream reiserfs support for trixie? [was Re: btrfs-progs: reiserfs support optional?]
Date	2024-12-29 06:20 +0100
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Dear Kernel team, I've CCed you because I'm hoping you know what
upstream support for reiserfs will look like during trixie's life-cycle.

Hi Felix,

Felix Zielcke <fzielcke@z-51.de> writes:

> On Mon, 24 Jun 2024 19:17:04 -0400 Nicholas D Steeves <sten@debian.org>
> wrote:
>> It looks like reiserfs will not be part of trixie
>> (Debian 13).
>
> Hi all,
>
> ReiserFS support in Linux has been now removed upstream [0]
> So 6.13 won't ship with it.
> Though I don't know which kernel ends up in trixie.

Last I checked 6.12 is next LTS kernel branch, and it's the one that
ptrixie will track.

> This should be discussed now, if we still want btrfs-convert to work
> with it.
>
> I don't mind shipping just libreiserfs without mkfs.

Is btrfs-convert really the best way for anyone to migrate to btrfs?
From what I can tell the answer to this is still firmly "no", so I'm
actually in favour of dropping it completely.

Are there any other consumers of libreiserfs?

> ReiserFS isn't year 2038 safe so new filesystems shouldn't be created
> anymore.

Agreed.  My primary concern is that there will be little no upstream
reiserfs support during the latter stages of trixie's life-cycle.  Why
wouldn't it be best to let bookworm be last release with a libreiserfs
and -progs?  The kernel in trixie seems like it may continue to support
reiserfs, so users could still mount, backup, reformat, restore.

Regards,
Nicholas

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upstream reiserfs support for trixie?  [was Re: btrfs-progs:  reiserfs support optional?] Nicholas D Steeves <sten@debian.org> - 2024-12-29 06:20 +0100
  Re: upstream reiserfs support for trixie?  [was Re: btrfs-progs:  reiserfs support optional?] Felix Zielcke <fzielcke@z-51.de> - 2025-01-19 19:10 +0100

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