Bug#298020: [Parted-maintainers] Bug#298020: Suggested reopen: "298020: parted: hfs(+) support is still poorly documented"

[Sven Luther]

On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 10:33:25PM -0400, A. Costa wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 09:25:03 +0200
> Sven Luther <sven.luther at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> 
> > Notice that in the current state of things, the debian package doesn't support
> > reiserfs anymore, ...
> 
> That's a valid point; well, I had known about and even thought of that,
> since I'm kind of a fan of Reiser on his technical merits even though
> he's currently in what seems like a needless feud with some Debian
> luminaries.

Well, reiserfs is a nice FS to have around when you want some data to
dissapear without a trace :)

The problem is that libparted use the non-official libreiser thingy, and need
to be switched to the official one, nobody volunteered to do the work though,
maybe you do ?

> However, unofficial Debian reiser packages seem to exist, as the
> 'parted' package description says:
> 
>  Note that ReiserFS support is only enabled if you install
>  the libreiserfs0.3-0 package. Since libreiserfs0.3-0 has been
>  removed from sarge, ReiserFS support is not compiled in the
>  default package.

Well, apart from the above, libreiserfs has been orphaned since ages.

> ...and the info page mentions 'reiserfs' dozens of times.  And a lot of
> Debian users, (and Debian variants or offshoots), use reiser, -- for
> example 'reiserfs' is one of the default file systems on this 'Mepis'
> LiveCD** I have, etc. etc.

Sure, they store everythign on the liveCD; and nothing vital on the filesystem
:) Reiserfs used to be popular back then, when there where scarce
alternatives, but i doubt there is a single distro making it  default now that
we have ext3.

> (**yes, before anyone mentions it, Mepis is somewhat proprietary, and
> may not be the best example of this sort of thing.  It's just I haven't
> tried every Debian based LiveCD out there, and that's the first one
> that came to mind.)
> 
> To leave out mention of reiser on principle would logically require
> editing the 'info' page too I reckon, which I doubt anyone wants to
> do.  So for all those reasons it made sense (in my view) to include it
> in the man page also.
> 
> Suggested compromise:  how about I add a paragraph to the man page
> cautioning Debian users about reiserfs' current not officially
> supported status?

Yep, that would be nice. Alternatively you (or someone else) could fix the
reiserfs situation in libparted ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther