On Monday, September 18th, 2023 at 19:41, Segher Boessenkool <segher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 05:56:09PM +0000, Peter Lafreniere wrote:ReiserFS has been considered deprecated for 19 months since commit eb103a51640e ("reiserfs: Deprecate reiserfs"). However, there are several architectures that still build it into their defconfig kernels. As ReiserFS will be removed in 2025, delete all ReiserFS-related options from defconfig files before the filesystem's removal.This is essentially equivalent to deleting the filesystem now. Why do this? Is there such a hurry?
This is not equivalent to deleting the filesystem. The filesystem can still be configured into kernels, and few distros use a defconfig kernel anyway.
Segher
Cheers, Peter Lafreniere <peter@xxxxxxxx>
