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Date:      Thu, 19 May 2016 13:33:42 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Pedro Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        "George V. Neville-Neil" <gnn@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r300062 - in head/sys: gnu/fs modules modules/reiserfs
Message-ID:  <20160519133342.GA50840@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <7ba425bb-6dc8-f56f-1353-abd7291cdb5e@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201605171536.u4HFae3R084696@repo.freebsd.org> <7ba425bb-6dc8-f56f-1353-abd7291cdb5e@FreeBSD.org>

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On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 11:29:01AM -0500, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
> Hello;
> 
> On 05/17/16 10:36, George V. Neville-Neil wrote:
> > Author: gnn
> > Date: Tue May 17 15:36:40 2016
> > New Revision: 300062
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/300062
> >
> > Log:
> >   Kill off ReiserFS as it is no longer supported, for obvious reasons.
> 
> It's not so obvious since the fs worked and could've been useful for
> people migrating from ancient linux.

And not just that.  Simply having ability to boot off Live CD and read
some exotic filesystem is cool.  What was wrong with ReiserFS, was it
broken or something?  (NTFS support is another great loss of ours.)

./danfe



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