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, Felix Zielcke <fziel...@z-51.de> writes: > On Mon, 24 Jun 2024 19:17:04 -0400 Nicholas D Steeves <s...@debian.org> > wrote: >> It looks like reiserfs will not be part of trixie >> (Debian 13). > > Hi all, > > ReiserFS support in Linux has been now removed upstream [0] > So 6.13 won't ship with it. > Though I don't know which kernel ends up in trixie. Last I checked 6.12 is next LTS kernel branch, and it's the one that ptrixie will track. > 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? > 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. Regards, Nicholas
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