On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 04:33:56PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 04:56:37PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: >>On Sun, May 21, 2023 at 07:35:36AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >>> Adam Borowski <[email protected]> (2023-05-20): >>> > The JFS filesystem is deprecated in the kernel: on life support since 2009 >>> > and with talks of removal altogether. Thus, we really shouldn't offer to >>> > format new setups with it. There are people who kind-of remember JFS >>> > being >>> > the fastest back in the day, and it's irresponsible to set them for failed >>> > upgrades past Bookworm. >>> > >>> > Thus: please remove JFS from the installer. >>> >>> It doesn't seem reasonable to do that weeks away from the release, without >>> any kind of heads-up. That can be done during the Trixie release cycle, >>> e.g. in Alpha 1. >> >>Aye, sorry for having distracted you during the most busy time. I filed the >>bug when I learned about plans of giving JFS the axe. >> >>> Feel free to ping this bug report a few weeks/months into the next release >>> cycle >> >>So... it might be a better time now. > >Agreed, we'll pick this up shortly.
And we didn't. :-( I've just excluded partman-jfs from image builds now. kibi: I don't see any config to use partman-jfs in d-i or not, which matches my expectations that it's just pulled in if it's viaible in the debian-installer section of the archive. Shall we request removal via ftpmaster? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] "I suspect most samba developers are already technically insane... Of course, since many of them are Australians, you can't tell." -- Linus Torvalds
