Re: [PATCH] Remove support for reiserfs.

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Chris Lumens wrote:
>> Yeah I agree, (sorry for the previous one-liner, must remember to read 
>> thread before replying...)
>>
>> I have no particular love for reiserfs, but unless it's causing some sort
>> of big burden to anaconda maintainers, I don't see any reason to remove
>> it, it just limits people's choices.  Putting it behind the boot-time
>> option makes it very clear that it's not a standard operation, but hey
>> if you know what you're doing, go for it ...
> 
> The year is 2010.  reiserfs was marked as unsupported with this commit:
> 
>    commit 4ba6b2226f860e850112b15d61559dca3da04167
>    Author: Mike Fulbright <msf@xxxxxxxxxx>
>    Date:   Fri Jul 13 20:16:32 2001 +0000
> 
>        as per kernel team orders, turning off support for reiserfs
> 
> We've always taken the stance that we've got support, but we don't care
> about any bug reports related to it.  Either we support something, or we
> don't.  Should we keep pretending a little longer than nine years?

*shrug* don't care that much (though I'd say there are many other large
swaths of the fedora kernel that we can't -really- natively support)...

But hey, if it suits you, chop chop.  :)

-Eric

> - Chris

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