Re: [PATCH] Remove support for reiserfs.

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> I don't think this gains us much other then to alienate users who for
> some reason prefer reiserfs.

I'm not really concerned about this.

> If anything we need to check the supported
> flag in more places (iow do not recognize reiserfs at all when the cmdline
> option is not given), or in less places (iow allow mounting of pre-existing
> reiserfs partitions independent of the cmdline option), or make it clear
> why we are disallowing mounting, like putting a greyed out "not supported" text
> in the mountpoint widget. This will fix the issue atodorov was reporting for
> any filesystems which we do ntot 100% support, rather then just taking the
> hammer to one of them.

This patch is only incidentally related to atodorov's issue.  Him
bringing reiserfs up just reminded me that we continue to pretend to
support this filesystem, even though we'll ignore bug reports on it,
when pretty much no one throughout the distribution has an interest in
it anymore.  Why bother wasting our time?

- Chris

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