svn commit: r300062 - in head/sys: gnu/fs modules modules/reiserfs

Pedro Giffuni pfg at FreeBSD.org
Tue May 17 17:21:22 UTC 2016



On 05/17/16 11:50, Conrad Meyer wrote:
> On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 9:29 AM, Pedro Giffuni <pfg at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> Log:
>>>   Kill off ReiserFS as it is no longer supported, for obvious reasons.
>>>
>>
>> It's not so obvious since the fs worked and could've been useful for
>> people migrating from ancient linux.
>
> This may still be possible through e.g. sysutils/fusefs-lkl (ReiserFS
> isn't included in the port yet, but it's possible that it could be).
>

And that's a pretty cool port but since it's not base it involves
adding a package and some digging for documentation.

Quite honestly, it's a pretty hypothetical situation. By far the most 
common migration cases are ext4 (which is covered by base) and XFS.

We should make fusefs-lkl more visible.

Pedro.


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