[Bug 1241758] Re: ReiserFS support removed from Ubuntu 13.10 installer => not even possible to mount existing partitions

[Steve Newcomb]

Different users have different requirements, and you guys are creating
big problems with us.

We've been using Reiserfs for over a decade due to its tail packing (we
have many small files) and excellent inherent filesystem recovery.  Our
data have survived many hardware failures without resorting to backups.
Actual experience with many servers over many years, in actual
production!  Not just theory!

Our experiments with XFS were disastrous; we lost a lot of data, and
even after we bought proprietary tools to recover, must data were lost.
That has NEVER happened to us with Reiserfs (reiser3).

WIthout tail-packing, ext4 is extremely disk-space-inefficient for us,
with our jillions of small files, and when we boot, the machine may go
off on a lengthy file system check, leaving us without access to a
perhaps-urgently-needed host or its data.  The alternative, of course,
is to waste our precious human-time doing, egad, file system maintenance
chores.  That's crazy!

I guess we'll try JFS now, because it has tail-packing.  But I note
there's apparently nothing for JFS that's comparable to Reiser's free
--rebuild-tree option.  Just a project, jfsrec, that may or may not work
when things go awry.

THIS IS NOT GOOD!  Why take away something that's so important, so
useful, so robust, so human-time-efficient, as Reiser3????  To save 200K
on the installer disk?  That's just crazy.

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Title:
  ReiserFS support removed from Ubuntu 13.10 installer => not even
  possible to mount existing partitions

Status in “partman-partitioning” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  ReiserFS support has been removed from the Ubuntu 13.10 installer. It
  is not even possible to mount existing partitions in the installer. I
  do *not* yet want to use BTRFS for my data partition, since it is much
  more unstable than ReiserFS. And I do *not* want to use the old
  ext3/4, since its performance is worse then ReiserFS (directories with
  many small files).

  At least, the installer should still allow to mount existing ReiserFS-
  based data partitions. Currently, it is necessary to install with
  BTRFS or ext3/4 and then manually add the existing ReiserFS
  partitions. If Ubuntu does not want people to use ReiserFS for
  whatever reason, print a warning and let users decide to use it. Just
  silently removing a feature is annoying.

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