From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Edward Shishkin Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: where is now reiserfs in Debian-testing netinstall?] Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:03:52 +0100 Message-ID: <4BAB7B58.1000204@gmail.com> References: <4BAB672C.3040405@ya.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4BAB672C.3040405@ya.ru> Sender: reiserfs-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format="flowed" To: dimas000@ya.ru Cc: reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org Hello. dimas wrote: > hi Edward and others! i have some news about reiserfs: it's now=20 > removed from Debian installation images due to "loss of active=20 > maintainence". > look at the message below - this is the reply i got in debian-cd=20 > mailing list. can you say reiser3 is really well-supported now or it'= s=20 > "sad but true"? > > -------- =D0=98=D1=81=D1=85=D0=BE=D0=B4=D0=BD=D0=BE=D0=B5 =D1=81=D0=BE= =D0=BE=D0=B1=D1=89=D0=B5=D0=BD=D0=B8=D0=B5 -------- > On Tuesday 23 March 2010, dimas wrote: >> earlier i've installed Debian testing several times from "bussinessc= ard" >> 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 partition= ing >> 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 Because reiserfs is no longer actively maintained upstream What "upstream" do they mean?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. > --=20 > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe=20 > reiserfs-devel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe reiserfs-deve= l" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html