From owner-svn-src-all@freebsd.org Thu May 19 17:03:02 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-all@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EA94B4241F for ; Thu, 19 May 2016 17:03:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pfg@FreeBSD.org) Received: from nm35-vm3.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com (nm35-vm3.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com [72.30.238.75]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EB2C61DCA for ; Thu, 19 May 2016 17:03:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pfg@FreeBSD.org) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s2048; t=1463676568; bh=rFMcPnBBqkRz6M+rD2NC56qnjXHuCw4Xa3+4AufqilU=; h=Subject:To:References:Cc:From:Date:In-Reply-To:From:Subject; b=bQSNg52RWhLgDfQWoXgSLKCW6+ueAtiYQ/gcoVWOoX69yIIabHEpk4VR1DDeuheqi0Cn7ZsW2AB/GN0FW/vudWC68wW7DhwVeHtnho5I80aH5np9LXS8H8Wiq3czGolh3iprXEmScTwbRdNJNuuIoCpbj1VQ5yoYyaPFPozxAv9TOyZjjq/00YAaQG7fSJXsBGtZQFO5ILbk8IioNKiLy+td1gsJc8rNTamTDrUTIM5seLQ/3wIF+v4fStqQWUhFLjxZZ6cZgJoInLeFzXYP2GtkXnV1s8YeueYA2qea7gUYzPi+LRMQNHptVA9jR0ZWz23S81KZdJNeB4KfSXVpNQ== Received: from [98.139.214.32] by nm35.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 19 May 2016 16:49:28 -0000 Received: from [68.142.230.77] by tm15.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 19 May 2016 16:49:28 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp234.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 19 May 2016 16:49:28 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 655163.1705.bm@smtp234.mail.bf1.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: zhBzPEQVM1myc65n7LIvmjhtNui080RzYQawhh0esK77WzW B5dPBAw9P_D64t8sJX_fGERSX5Y_CWhPKO5IIEu8t8NtBiLSbMmhbhxg3LGd NKRLzbEkr92yFtl8b3Xik4zGxjidR1OtVlzJ6r2cP2NPz2VKihp.VlWwWIPf Pthl9Ym0Yx7E1YCM6Wy2UZDWWLdAmniyPTWuf3HqoGsWZuVhCAxh0kRGlRK6 HGuejl2RsCxbd0xHoMmvxQItwSyEMp4joN3gbNxzyESUwZi0MMhrb4yStbwg _UYfU6UZf67ukGRteRPYy1tC4pg9wAXQbkzy0xFwOoWa7C6A.3PovBzEMtQ_ O08a.fM2b9ja3ub2mVL6BUAoWJVyhG7PF_harf3oPOU3Qsh3z2z2sqRpsAoR rA_O0t1sxgwW3iVfT6EqHez1eiIsdiLgWrlEF8FJYc._wyrR2BqJFw32iJWR Y2mawgjYvA975tDYG72EZQ4Vk3OsCTzqi0ZqLy559aObePftSatJ2CFh_DRc KX1FKvGPnC.ts9hb_3GRbiCE8bwIdXvw5 X-Yahoo-SMTP: xcjD0guswBAZaPPIbxpWwLcp9Unf Subject: Re: svn commit: r300062 - in head/sys: gnu/fs modules modules/reiserfs To: Alexey Dokuchaev References: <201605171536.u4HFae3R084696@repo.freebsd.org> <7ba425bb-6dc8-f56f-1353-abd7291cdb5e@FreeBSD.org> <20160519133342.GA50840@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "George V. Neville-Neil" , src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org From: Pedro Giffuni Message-ID: <03aa6521-01e5-a0fb-c40f-1ef3b2a43b15@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 11:49:39 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160519133342.GA50840@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: svn-src-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire src tree \(except for " user" and " projects" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 17:03:02 -0000 On 05/19/16 08:33, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > 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.) > Well, I recall it was the only GPL'd filesystem that survived SMP but apart from that, the fs format is not really used anymore, it didn't have much sense to keep it. As pointed out by Conrad, sysutils/fusefs-lkl is the way to go. And then ... IANAL, but given the situation in other camps it seems sane to keep away from anything involving the words "GPL" and "filesystems" in the same sentence. Pedro.