Jeff Mahoney, director of the SUSE Labs division, has presented to the community a proposal to discontinue support for the ReiserFS file system in openSUSE. The motivation includes the plan to remove ReiserFS from the main kernel composition by 2025, stagnation in the maintenance of this file system, and the lack of redundancy features offered by modern file systems to protect against data corruption in case of a crash or compromise.
It is proposed to immediately remove the reiserfs package from the openSUSE Tumbleweed repository and disable the Linux kernel-level implementation of ReiserFS. For those who have partitions with ReiserFS, it is suggested to use the FUSE front-end for reiserfs included in GRUB to access data. Notably, in 2006, Jeff Mahoney was the initiator of discontinuing the use of ReiserFS in openSUSE by default. Support for ReiserFS in SUSE was discontinued 4 years ago.
Fuente: opennet.ru
