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

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

On 10 February 2014 14:26, Steve Newcomb <srn at coolheads.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

Reiserfs is still supported by the 14.04 kernel, thus existing
installations will continue to work a be upgradable.

You can use 12.04 LTS installers to perform installations and upgrade
to latest trusty. Also note that 12.04 LTS is receiving ongoing
support and security updates including optionally 14.04 LTS kernel and
X stack.

If you have bugs about XFS and/or btrfs, please file them to upstream,
as it is reasonable for them to be addressed by 2019.

-- 
Regards,

Dimitri.

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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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