Linus Torvalds has accepted a change into the Linux kernel that removes the implementation of the ReiserFS file system, which was deprecated last year and scheduled for removal in 2025. The change has been accepted into the branch that forms the 6.13 kernel (expected to be released in early February). The main reason for removing ReiserFS was to reduce the effort of maintaining changes in the kernel that span multiple file systems, such as the move to a new mounting API, iomap, and folios. ReiserFS has a small user base.
Other issues with ReiserFS include stagnation in support for the file system, the unsolved Year 2038 problem, and the lack of fault tolerance capabilities offered by modern file systems to protect against corruption in the event of a crash or compromise. The last major distribution to support ReiserFS was openSUSE, but two years ago, openSUSE developers stopped supporting the file system in the Tumbleweed repository. SUSE stopped supporting ReiserFS 6 years ago. A pull request to remove ReiserFS in the 6.13 kernel was submitted by a SUSE employee.
Source: opennet.ru
