On 12 Aug 2024 18:17 +1000, from curmudg...@telaman.net.au (David): >> Do you anybody still use ReiserFS today? How about it compares to >> ext4? > > Is it even being maintained these days?
Per Wikipedia: ReiserFS 3 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReiserFS>: "The reiserfsprogs 3.6.27 were released on 25 July 2017." "[ReiserFS 3] was deprecated in Linux 5.18, and marked as obsolete in Linux 6.6. It is planned for removal in 2025." ReiserFS 4 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reiser4>: "As of 2021, the Reiser4 patch set is still being maintained, but according to Phoronix, it is unlikely to be merged into mainline Linux without corporate backing." Footnote references in the original text deleted. See the respective article if you want more details including source citations. Note that Debian Stable/Bookworm is on Linux 6.1, which puts ReiserFS 3 at deprecated but not yet obsoleted. Bookworm Backports is currently on 6.9, and Trixie is currently on 6.10 so it will have a status of deprecated in Stable as of likely mid-2025 or thereabouts. If the kernel developers follow through on that 2025 removal, Debian 14/Forky (which I would expect to see in 2027) will be using a kernel with no ReiserFS 3 support at all unless perhaps someone maintains it out of tree; and if my understanding is correct, ReiserFS 4 requires out-of-tree kernel software to be used on any version of Linux. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”
