Bug#1036400: partman-jfs: JFS is on its way out, please remove from the installer
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 <kilobyte@angband.pl> (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.
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