[Fwd: Re: where is now reiserfs in Debian-testing netinstall?]

[Fwd: Re: where is now reiserfs in Debian-testing netinstall?]

[dimas]

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Because reiserfs is no longer actively maintained upstream and because
there are now good alternatives, 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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Re: [Fwd: Re: where is now reiserfs in Debian-testing netinstall?]

[Edward Shishkin]

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 Because reiserfs is no longer actively maintained upstream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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