Bug#646699: btrfs: Installer offers BTRFS an optional filesystem

[Gergely Nagy <algernon@balabit.hu>]

reassign 646699 debian-installer
thanks

Maarten <mvrossen@gmail.com> writes:

> Package: btrfs
> Severity: critical
> Justification: causes serious data loss
>
> BTRFS shouldn't be offert as a option filesystem in the debian installer.
> It is unsafe to use. Quallity is poor. No recovery possible on filesystem errors. (The btrfs driver will even crash on a filesystem error)
> The provided tool btrfsck doesn't actually do anything.
> There doesn't seem to be any progres on a working btrfsck.
>
> Atleased users should be warned to not use it, unless they don't care about dataloss

There is no btrfs package in Debian, thus, this report did not reach any
developers. Furthermore, since it is the installer that is allegedly at
fault, it should be filed against the debian-installer package.

I went ahead and reassigned it there.

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