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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: dsterba@suse.cz, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Moving unmaintained filesystems to staging
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 19:57:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180426025717.GA32430@bombadil.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180425203029.GQ21272@twin.jikos.cz>

On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 10:30:29PM +0200, David Sterba wrote:
> I had similar toughts some time ago while browsing the fs/ directory.
> Access to the filesystem images can be reimplemented in FUSE, but other
> than that, I don't think the in-kernel code would be missed.
> 
> It's hard to know how many users are there. I was curious eg. about bfs,
> befs, coda or feevxfs, looked at the last commits and searched around
> web if there are any mentions or user community. But as long as there's
> somebody listed in MAINTAINERS, the above are not candidates for moving
> to staging or deletion.

Yeah, it's pretty sad how few commits some of these filesystems have
had in recent years.  One can argue that they're stable and don't need
to be fixed because they aren't broken, but I find it hard to believe
that any of them were better-implemented than ext2 which still sees
regular bugfixes.

As long as there's someone who can be pestered with bugs, I don't see
the need to push their baby out of the tree.  I'm a bit more nervous
about hfsplus; if it has users and no maintainer, those users are at risk.

Perhaps we could advertise on Craigslist or something ... maintainer
wanted for LTR.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-26  2:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 94+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-25 15:46 Moving unmaintained filesystems to staging Matthew Wilcox
2018-04-25 15:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25 20:30 ` David Sterba
2018-04-26  2:57   ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2018-04-26 10:28     ` moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? (was: Re: Moving unmaintained filesystems to staging) Martin Steigerwald
2018-04-26 10:28       ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-04-26 10:45       ` moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-04-26 10:45         ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-04-26 10:59         ` David Sterba
2018-04-26 11:06           ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-05-06  0:59         ` Al Viro
2018-05-06  7:40           ` Al Viro
2018-05-06  7:40             ` Al Viro
2018-05-06 20:46             ` Al Viro
2018-05-06 20:46               ` Al Viro
2018-05-06 20:49               ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-05-06 21:32               ` Al Viro
2018-05-06 21:32                 ` Al Viro
2018-05-07  2:15                 ` Al Viro
2018-05-07  2:15                   ` Al Viro
2018-05-07  2:40                   ` Michael Schmitz
2018-05-07  2:40                     ` Michael Schmitz
2018-05-07  7:08                     ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-05-07  7:08                       ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-05-07 20:50                       ` Michael Schmitz
2018-05-07 20:50                         ` Michael Schmitz
2018-05-07 20:56                         ` Ingo Jürgensmann
2018-05-07 20:58                           ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-05-06  8:40           ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-05-06  8:40             ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-05-06 10:12           ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-04-26 11:00       ` moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? (was: Re: Moving unmaintained filesystems to staging) Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-26 11:00         ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-26 11:08       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-04-26 11:08         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-04-26 23:56         ` Finn Thain
2018-04-26 23:56           ` Finn Thain
2018-04-27  1:43           ` moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? jdow
2018-04-27  1:43             ` jdow
2018-04-27  1:26         ` jdow
2018-04-27  1:26           ` jdow
2018-05-06  8:52           ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-05-06 10:10             ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-05-06 10:10               ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-05-07  4:54             ` jdow
2018-04-27  2:11         ` moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? (was: Re: Moving unmaintained filesystems to staging) Michael Schmitz
2018-04-27  2:11           ` Michael Schmitz
2018-06-24  9:06           ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-06-24  9:06             ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-06-24 11:33             ` moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? jdow
2018-06-24 11:40             ` jdow
2018-06-26  2:23               ` Michael Schmitz
2018-06-26  5:17                 ` jdow
2018-06-26  8:12                   ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-06-26  9:46                     ` jdow
2018-06-26  8:31                   ` Michael Schmitz
2018-06-26  9:45                     ` jdow
2018-06-27  1:07                       ` Michael Schmitz
2018-06-27  6:24                         ` jdow
2018-06-27  8:03                           ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-06-27  8:03                             ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-06-28  2:57                             ` jdow
2018-06-28  7:40                               ` Amiga RDB partition support for disks >= 2 TB (was: Re: moving affs + RDB partition support to staging?) Martin Steigerwald
2018-06-27  9:00                           ` moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? Michael Schmitz
2018-06-28  3:44                             ` jdow
2018-06-28  5:43                               ` Michael Schmitz
2018-06-28  6:39                                 ` jdow
2018-06-28  8:16                                   ` Amiga RDB partition support for disks >= 2 TB (was: Re: moving affs + RDB partition support to staging?) Martin Steigerwald
2018-06-28 10:00                                     ` Amiga RDB partition support for disks >= 2 TB jdow
2018-06-28 11:30                                       ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-06-28 11:38                                         ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-06-28 12:31                                           ` jdow
2018-06-28  8:07                                 ` Amiga RDB partition support for disks >= 2 TB (was: Re: moving affs + RDB partition support to staging?) Martin Steigerwald
2018-06-27  7:57                         ` moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? Martin Steigerwald
2018-06-28  2:56                           ` jdow
2018-06-26  8:02                 ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-06-26  8:40                   ` Michael Schmitz
2018-06-26  9:31                   ` jdow
2018-06-25  7:53             ` moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? (was: Re: Moving unmaintained filesystems to staging) Michael Schmitz
2018-06-25  8:26               ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-06-25  8:26                 ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-06-25  8:40               ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-04-27  8:01         ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-04-27  8:01           ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-04-26  4:58   ` Moving unmaintained filesystems to staging Nikolay Borisov
2018-04-26  5:30     ` Willy Tarreau
2018-04-26  6:11 ` Pavel Machek
2018-04-26 10:36   ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-05-03  9:18     ` Pavel Machek
2018-04-27  1:10   ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2018-04-29 12:07   ` Greg KH
2018-04-29 20:07     ` Ondrej Zary
2018-04-29 23:37       ` Greg KH
2018-05-01 10:14         ` Pavel Machek

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