Was there a technical reason? Intentional? It worked in 4.18.15, but it’s clearly been omitted from /boot/config-4.19.1-* file now.
I guess you’d best ask on the kernel mailing list.
Thanks, mmm it’s already addressed there,
https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-kernel/2018-10/msg00001.html
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1109665
I’m just reiterating what was said on reddit by someone else: yanking a driver after saying no end users replied to the mailing list after 48 hours is a very poor way to deprecate a feature that is undoubtedly in use by someone somewhere.
I was using it for my flash drives and was setting it up for my friends also.
This thread is about the inclusion of F2FS in the kernel build. This would only be a problem if your boot or root partitions were using F2FS. I do not think that is very likely for a desktop or server OS.
Tools to format, check, mount, etc. are still available in the Tumbleweed and Leap OSS repositories.
How does one mount f2fs if there is no module and it’s not compiled into the kernel, that’s the problem.
Hi
Just build out of tree as a KMP…
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs.git/
Easy to do on OBS as well…
I am a not terribly experienced user of opensuse and I thought f2fs was a sensible choice for a flashdrive. I do not wish to boot from it, just use it for flash drives. It does not work now and I cannot access my data. How would I know that before updating? Forgive me but the first episode of The Hitchikers Guide To The Galaxy comes to mind. Some tlc would be nice. Cheers Clive
Hi
So there is a long discussion on the mailing list about it and others being blacklisted, f2fs is a security issue as well as un-maintained…
If your up for a long…long read…
f2fs is not “being blacklisted”, it is no more built for openSUSE kernel. You really do not see a difference?
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That too… I guess I should ignore line 21?
I do’nt understand this blacklisting. There is no “modprobe.conf/modprobe.conf.fs-blacklist” in my system (Tumbleweed). Where should I uncomment the line with f2fs?
The kernel module f2fs.ko misses. I can build own custom kernel with f2fs enabled. Is there another way to get this module (mount f2fs SD-card)?
jizbox:/lib/modules # fgrep -i f2fs /boot/config-4.1.39-56-default
CONFIG_F2FS_FS=m
CONFIG_F2FS_STAT_FS=y
CONFIG_F2FS_FS_XATTR=y
CONFIG_F2FS_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
CONFIG_F2FS_FS_SECURITY=y
CONFIG_F2FS_CHECK_FS is not set
CONFIG_F2FS_IO_TRACE is not set
jizbox:/lib/modules # fgrep -i f2fs /boot/config-4.20.6-1-default