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

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Am Samstag, dem 28.12.2024 um 22:09 -0700 schrieb Nicholas D Steeves:
> Control: tag -1 trixie
> 
> 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,
> 
Hi Nicholas,

I can't find a response from Kernel Team.
But it looks like trixie will ship with 6.12. It's LTS and is the last
Kernel with ReiserFS support.
So I guess it's still possible to mount a reiserfs during trixie's
life-cycle.

> Felix Zielcke <fzielcke@z-51.de> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, 24 Jun 2024 19:17:04 -0400 Nicholas D Steeves
> > <sten@debian.org>
> > wrote:
> > > 
> 
> > 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?
> 
reiserfsprogs and btrfs-convert are the only ones.
If it would have been my decision, I wouldn't have added btrfs-convert
support in the first place.
So from my POV I totally agree to remove it.

> > 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.
> 

I'm a bit unsure if we should at least ship with reiserfsck. But if
people still use it >= 2038 then it would do more damage then fixing
your fs.
But I'm totally open to completely RM it.

Regards,
Felix

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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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