On Sun, 2019-05-12 at 18:34 +0200, Thanatermesis wrote:
> Package: linux-image-amd64
> Version: 4.19+104
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> When using any partition which uses reiserfs, the kernel crashes
>
> This happens very easily by just using the reiser (v3) filesystem, some
> of my external hard disks uses it (so I cannot make use of them), or
> partition mountpoints with reiserfs becomes totally unusable and
> dangerous
>
> This bug is easily reproducible by creating a new reiserfs partition
> (image file probably too) and start using it, so it looks like it
> specially affects in RW operations
>
> I suggest to mark this bug as a serious one since there's so many people
> using this filesystem, in desktops or servers.
>
> The package is the last one available on the buster branch
reiserfs v3 is *not* widely used, and is barely maintained upstream.
Debian hasn't supported installing to reiserfs for a while.
It is quite possible that we will "fix" this by disabling reiserfs
altogether. In any case, I strongly recommend that you switch to a
better supported filesystem like ext4 or xfs.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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