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

[Sven Luther]

On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 04:49:15PM -0500, A. Costa wrote:
> Note: for some reason most of the following lay neglected in my
> Draft folder for a few months.
> 
> On Fri, 9 Sep 2005 08:10:42 +0200
> Sven Luther <sven.luther at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> 
> > Well, reiserfs is a nice FS to have around when you want some data to
> > disappear without a trace :)
> 
> Eek, hope you're not speaking from experience.  Still, I admire the
> thought behind Reiser4, it has some interesting ideas.

Nope, worse, from doing user support to some guys it happened too :)

> > 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 ?
> 
> It'd be difficult, sorry -- I'm not a maintainer, and don't know
> enough yet about the unofficial libreiser package to know what needs
> doing.

I guess most people are in the same case, a bit lost about this whole reiser
mess. A read of the parted mailing list archive (we do have an archive, right ?)

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

> Obviously no maintainer wants to support an utterly dead thing, but
> it's unclear that the reiserfs family of stuff is no more.  For example:
> 
> 	% zcat /usr/share/doc/reiser4progs/changelog.Debian.gz | head -n 5
> 	reiser4progs (1.0.5-1) unstable; urgency=low
> 
> 	  * New upstream release.
> 
> 	 -- Domenico Andreoli <cavok at debian.org>  Thu, 18 Aug 2005 13:00:20 +0200

Ah, nice, my knowledge may be obsolet then.

> > > ...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 everything 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.
> 
> An inductive and therefore not so reliable argument about
> reliability:  'Mepis' is a popular liveCD, so its busy user forums
> should have several horror stories about reiserfs, if that

Well, as said, my main experience is on powerpc, and mirrored by many of the
important powerpc porters, and i don't think Mepis is ported to powerpc, so
...

Friendly,

Sven Luther