Re: [PATCH] fs: Remove NTFS classic

From: Enrico Mioso <mrkiko.rs@gmail.com>
To: Anton Altaparmakov <anton@tuxera.com>
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>,
	 Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	 linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net, ntfs3@lists.linux.dev,
	 Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: Remove NTFS classic
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2024 12:08:29 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <00906203-9df2-ee5b-da37-b45073373ee0@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8a5d4fcb-f6dc-4c7e-a26c-0b0e91430104@tuxera.com>

On Mon, 15 Jan 2024, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:

> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2024 12:00:35
> From: Anton Altaparmakov <anton@tuxera.com>
> To: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>,
>     Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
> Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net,
>     ntfs3@lists.linux.dev, Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: Remove NTFS classic
> 
> Hi Matthew,
>
> On 15/01/2024 07:20, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
>> The replacement, NTFS3, was merged over two years ago.  It is now time to
>> remove the original from the tree as it is the last user of several APIs,
>> and it is not worth changing.
>
> It was my impression that people are complaining ntfs3 is causing a whole lot 
> of problems including corrupting people's data.  Also, it appears the 
> maintainer has basically disappeared after it got merged.

To be fair - it's more like "intermittent" maintenance rather than "no maintenance".
Konstantin - would it be OK for you to have a co-maintainer to help out?

Enrico

>
> Is it really such a good idea to remove the original ntfs driver which 
> actually works fine and does not cause any problems when the replacement is 
> so poor and unmaintained?
>
> Also, which APIs are you referring to?  I can take a look into those.
>
> Best regards,
>
> 	Anton
> -- 
> Anton Altaparmakov <anton at tuxera.com> (replace at with @)
> Lead in File System Development, Tuxera Inc., http://www.tuxera.com/
> Linux NTFS maintainer
>
>