Le 15/06/2025 à 07:32, SoX NG via Dng a écrit :
> Hi!
>
>   Linux have decided to dike reiserfs out of the kernel and most
> distros will probably be following suit.
>
> Well, I ran tests on a range of journalling filesystems some years
> back and of all of them, reiserfs won in almost all the speed tests
> and in efficiency in packing small files. I've been using it for
> everything since then and it has never lost a byte. Hats off!
>
> Oh, I'm sure there are justifications (there always are, especially
> for unjust things) but anyway.
>
> So my question is: is Devuan following the let's-kill-Hans mania, or
> is sideline support for reiserfs likely to be attempted? Cos
> retargeting every partition of every hard disk to a different
> filesystem of unknown (to me) reliability and performance, and losing
> access to the hard disk backups stashed with friends and hidden about
> the city in case my house burns down, is even less attractive than the
> prospect of remaining with some ancient version of everything (or of
> the kernel) forever.
>
> Replies telling me which other filesystem to use are not what I'm
> looking for.
>
> Thanks, looking forward to moving to Devuan anyway.
>
>
>      S

    I've used Reiserfs since the first time it appeared in Debian and
always considered it great. For a few recent releases of Devuan, I had
to trick a little the installation because it was not available in the
installer. Then it became completely impossible to install the rootfs on
Reiserfs, but it was still possible to create a home partition
afterwards. So, well, Debian drops it, but are you sure Linux does. I
always thought Linus was reluctant to remove support of software people
used, and which have no serious bug. There was a discussion recently
about HFS, which is essential to boot old Macs; let me point you to a
message of Linus which is a big breath of air:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2023/07/msg00018.html

    Just because of this message, I have a doubt that Reiserfs is being
dropped by the kernel. And I quote the last sentence because I love it:

/"Now, would it be good to have a maintainer for hgs? Obviously. But no,
we don't remove filesystems just because they don't have maintainers.
And no, we have not suddenly started saying "users don't matter". Linus"/

 --     Didier