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Is Novell abandoning ReiserFS?

April 26, 2017abandoning Novell ReiserFS

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Is Novell abandoning ReiserFS?

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Not at all. Novell continues to support and improve ReiserFS v3. It is also included in mainline kernel distributions and will continue to receive enterprise support in future SUSE Linux Enterprise distributions, including SUSE Linux Enterprise 11. Customers who deploy SUSE Linux Enterprise 9 or SUSE Linux Enterprise 10—and determine that ReiserFS is best for their companies’ applications or service use cases—should use ReiserFS. This will continue to be the case in SUSE Linux Enterprise 11, as users will still be able to create new file systems with it. ReiserFS v3 will be supported and maintained for the full lifetime of the SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 platform. Novell has always recommended using the best file system for each application or service, and ReiserFS v3 is one of several supported file systems in SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 and 11. In addition, users updating from SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 to SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 will not experience any problems. SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 wi