From: Edward Shishkin <edward.shishkin@gmail.com>
To: dimas000@ya.ru
Cc: reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: where is now reiserfs in Debian-testing netinstall?]
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:03:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BAB7B58.1000204@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BAB672C.3040405@ya.ru>
Hello.
dimas wrote:
> hi Edward and others! i have some news about reiserfs: it's now
> removed from Debian installation images due to "loss of active
> maintainence".
> look at the message below - this is the reply i got in debian-cd
> mailing list. can you say reiser3 is really well-supported now or it's
> "sad but true"?
>
> -------- Исходное сообщение --------
> On Tuesday 23 March 2010, dimas wrote:
>> earlier i've installed Debian testing several times from "bussinesscard"
>> images (28M) and all was fine. but now i was really surprised when i
>> tried to do this and haven't found Reiserfs in installer's partitioning
>> menu.
>
> Because reiserfs is no longer actively maintained upstream
What "upstream" do they mean?
Reiserfs file system driver is in mainline kernel. It already
means active maintenance. The user-space utilities (reiserfsprogs)
are maintained by me and Jeff Mahoney.
> and because
> there are now good alternatives
Huh? Which ones?
Edward.
> , we have made support for reiserfs
> optional instead of standard.
>
> To use reiserfs with daily images you need [blah-blah-blah]
> I will send a general announcement of this change soon.
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2010-03-25 13:37 [Fwd: Re: where is now reiserfs in Debian-testing netinstall?] dimas
2010-03-25 15:03 ` Edward Shishkin [this message]
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