Updated my system today and noticed that the command pamac list -m
shows a new entry reiserfsprogs 3.6.27-5 with no repository.
pamac info reiserfsprogs says Required By: -- but it does not appear in pamac list -o
Until now cannot find any reference to this in manjaro forums.
pamac info says this package contains utilities for Reiserfs.
My question: Is it safe to remove reiserfsprogs?
Thanks in advance
ReiserFS has been deleted from the Linux kernel since linux613, so I think we can assume that reiserfsprogs no longer serves any purpose and can be safely removed. If you have a partition that is formatted as ReiserFS, then you should use a kernel earlier than 6.13.
reiserfsprogs is in the AUR if anyone still needs it: AUR (en) - reiserfsprogs
The Reiser filesystem has also just been functionally dead for a long while already.
(with some life-support given by a company and then volunteers…)
Since about 2008 when that whole murder thing happened.
Reiserfs (3) had been a good file system for a while.
Instead of being replaced by reiserfs4, it was abandoned (after the murder).
After that, it was unclear which file system would take over from reiserfs. After all, btrfs was one of the file systems that offered the range of functions intended for Reiser4 from the start.
Thanks for you answer.
After checking with the command lsblk -f that no one of my partitions were ReiserFS, I removed that package.
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