[Bug 1241758] Re: ReiserFS support removed from Ubuntu 13.10 installer => not even possible to mount existing partitions

[John Hunter]

I am a third complainer. Luckily, I decided to try 13.10 on a spare
laptop. I concur with the useless description. I am currently running on
12.04 which is increasingly showing its age: there are problems with
"system settings" and the KDE community are ignoring problems with the
older facilities (in particular, printer registration), so an upgrade is
essential. There are issues with LibreOffice 3.5 which are beginning to
force the issue. The creation of the /home directory in the root
partition renders the installation as completely unuseable. Who was the
bright spark who took such a daft decision? A partition tool is not
needed when the disks are already set up; all that is needed are the
reiser kernel modules! (reiserfs.ko is a mere 280.2kB!). Another
oversight is the lack of synaptic -- muon, as its name seems to imply,
is truly moronic!

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Title:
  ReiserFS support removed from Ubuntu 13.10 installer => not even
  possible to mount existing partitions

Status in “partman-partitioning” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  ReiserFS support has been removed from the Ubuntu 13.10 installer. It
  is not even possible to mount existing partitions in the installer. I
  do *not* yet want to use BTRFS for my data partition, since it is much
  more unstable than ReiserFS. And I do *not* want to use the old
  ext3/4, since its performance is worse then ReiserFS (directories with
  many small files).

  At least, the installer should still allow to mount existing ReiserFS-
  based data partitions. Currently, it is necessary to install with
  BTRFS or ext3/4 and then manually add the existing ReiserFS
  partitions. If Ubuntu does not want people to use ReiserFS for
  whatever reason, print a warning and let users decide to use it. Just
  silently removing a feature is annoying.

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