From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is it time to remove reiserfs?
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2022 12:07:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220404100732.GB1476@duo.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220404085535.g2qr4s7itfunlrqb@quack3.lan>
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Hi!
> > > So from my distro experience installed userbase of reiserfs is pretty small
> > > and shrinking. We still do build reiserfs in openSUSE / SLES kernels but
> > > for enterprise offerings it is unsupported (for like 3-4 years) and the module
> > > is not in the default kernel rpm anymore.
> >
> > I believe I've seen reiserfs in recent Arch Linux ARM installation on
> > PinePhone. I don't really think you can remove a feature people are
> > using.
>
> Well, if someone uses Reiserfs they better either migrate to some other
> filesystem or start maintaining it. It is as simple as that because
> currently there's nobody willing to invest resources in it for quite a few
> years and so it is just a question of time before it starts eating people's
> data (probably it already does in some cornercases, as an example there are
> quite some syzbot reports for it)...
Yes people should migrate away from Reiserfs. I guess someone should
break the news to Arch Linux ARM people.
But I believe userbase is bigger than you think and it will not be
possible to remove reiserfs anytime soon.
Best regards,
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-04 10:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-02-20 12:13 Is it time to remove reiserfs? Matthew Wilcox
2022-02-20 23:21 ` Edward Shishkin
2022-02-20 23:22 ` [PATCH] reiserfs: get rid of AOP_FLAG_CONT_EXPAND flag Edward Shishkin
2022-02-22 10:27 ` Jan Kara
2022-02-22 13:38 ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-02-23 12:17 ` Jan Kara
2022-02-22 10:04 ` Is it time to remove reiserfs? Jan Kara
2022-02-22 22:16 ` Dave Chinner
2022-02-23 14:48 ` Byron Stanoszek
2022-02-23 15:28 ` Byron Stanoszek
2022-03-17 8:53 ` Thomas Dreibholz
2022-03-17 9:43 ` Jan Kara
2022-02-24 8:46 ` Jan Kara
2022-02-24 14:24 ` Byron Stanoszek
2022-02-24 21:06 ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-02-25 13:10 ` Byron Stanoszek
2022-02-25 13:23 ` Willy Tarreau
2022-02-25 22:56 ` Dave Chinner
2022-02-26 0:00 ` Theodore Ts'o
2022-04-02 10:57 ` Pavel Machek
2022-04-05 23:04 ` Dave Chinner
2022-04-02 10:54 ` Pavel Machek
2022-04-04 8:55 ` Jan Kara
2022-04-04 10:07 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2022-04-04 10:18 ` Willy Tarreau
2022-04-04 10:58 ` Pavel Machek
2022-04-04 13:05 ` Jan Kara
2022-04-04 12:55 ` Jan Kara
2022-04-04 13:16 ` Willy Tarreau
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