On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 06:56:24PM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote:
> Le 15/06/2025 à 17:57, Tomasz Torcz a écrit :
> > On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 05:53:55PM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote:
> > > Le 15/06/2025 à 17:52, Tomasz Torcz a écrit :
> > > > > Wake up, reiserfs was removed from kernel in 6.13, released last year.
> > > > To be more precise, it was removed in October 2024, but 6.13 was
> > > > released in January 2025.
> > > And do you know for which reason?
> > No-one to maintain it and keep up to date with changes in the kernel.
> > Some discusssions at https://lwn.net/Articles/886582/
> >
> Apparently the problem is a kernel API change which breaks backward
> compatibility.
>
> Very sad: I dislike do-it-all btrfs; zfs support on Linux is tricky and
> led me to data loss. So fall back to ext4 which still has the ext2 crap
> directory called lost+found which gets insanely duplicated everywhere if you
> don't mind to take special care. Doesn't look like progress. How happy were
> the reiserfs times!
Why not XFS? It looks like most advanced, non-CoW, non-device-pool filesystem for Linux.
With reflinks, online fsck, blocksizes>pagesize support it lacks nothing.
Only disadvantage is that XFS has truncate-to-zero bug decades ago,
and people still forgot it was fixed log ago.
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