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ReiserFS has not been actively maintained for many years. It has been marked as obsolete since Linux 6.6, and is scheduled for removal in 2025. A warning is logged informing users of this every time a ReiserFS file system is mounted. It suffers from unfixable issues like the year 2038 problem. JFS is a slightly more ambiguous case. It also has not been actively maintained for years; even in 2008 questions were being raised about its maintenance state and IBM’s commitment to it, and some enterprise distributions were opting not to ship support for it as a result. It will [indefinitely postpone journal writes], leading to data loss over potentially arbitrary amounts of time. Kernel developers [considered marking it as deprecated] last year, but no concrete decision was made. There have been [occasional fixes] to the code since then, but even the developer of much of those was not opposed to deprecating it. [considered marking it as deprecated]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Y8DvK281ii6yPRcW@infradead.org/ [indefinitely postpone journal writes]: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/usenix05/tech/general/full_papers/prabhakaran/prabhakaran.pdf [occasional fixes]: https://www.phoronix.com/news/JFS-Linux-6.7-Improvements Regardless of whether JFS should be removed from the kernel, with all the implications for existing installations that entails, I think it’s safe to say that no new Linux installation should be using either of these file systems, and that it’s a waste of space and potential footgun to be shipping support for them on our standard installation media. We’re lagging behind other distributions on this decision; neither is supported by Fedora’s installation media. (It also just so happens that `jfsutils` is the one remaining package in the minimal installer ISO that has reproducibility issues, due to some cursed toolchain bug, but I’m not trying to Goodhart’s law this or anything. I just think we shouldn’t be shipping it anyway.)
59 lines
1.5 KiB
Nix
59 lines
1.5 KiB
Nix
# This module defines the software packages included in the "minimal"
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# installation CD. It might be useful elsewhere.
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{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
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{
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# Include some utilities that are useful for installing or repairing
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# the system.
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environment.systemPackages = [
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pkgs.w3m-nographics # needed for the manual anyway
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pkgs.testdisk # useful for repairing boot problems
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pkgs.ms-sys # for writing Microsoft boot sectors / MBRs
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pkgs.efibootmgr
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pkgs.efivar
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pkgs.parted
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pkgs.gptfdisk
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pkgs.ddrescue
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pkgs.ccrypt
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pkgs.cryptsetup # needed for dm-crypt volumes
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# Some text editors.
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(pkgs.vim.customize {
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name = "vim";
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vimrcConfig.packages.default = {
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start = [ pkgs.vimPlugins.vim-nix ];
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};
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vimrcConfig.customRC = "syntax on";
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})
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# Some networking tools.
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pkgs.fuse
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pkgs.fuse3
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pkgs.sshfs-fuse
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pkgs.socat
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pkgs.screen
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pkgs.tcpdump
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# Hardware-related tools.
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pkgs.sdparm
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pkgs.hdparm
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pkgs.smartmontools # for diagnosing hard disks
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pkgs.pciutils
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pkgs.usbutils
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pkgs.nvme-cli
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# Some compression/archiver tools.
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pkgs.unzip
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pkgs.zip
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];
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# Include support for various filesystems and tools to create / manipulate them.
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boot.supportedFilesystems =
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[ "btrfs" "cifs" "f2fs" "ntfs" "vfat" "xfs" ] ++
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lib.optional (lib.meta.availableOn pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform config.boot.zfs.package) "zfs";
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# Configure host id for ZFS to work
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networking.hostId = lib.mkDefault "8425e349";
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}
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