From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752162AbcBKB4Y (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Feb 2016 20:56:24 -0500 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:48671 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750784AbcBKB4X (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Feb 2016 20:56:23 -0500 Subject: Re: fs/udf and udftools To: Steve Kenton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <56BBABAC.8010008@ou.edu> Cc: Robert Howard , Jan Kara From: Randy Dunlap Message-ID: <56BBEA40.90202@infradead.org> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 17:56:16 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <56BBABAC.8010008@ou.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org [add Jan Kara] On 02/10/16 13:29, Steve Kenton wrote: > Is anyone maintaining these or am I about to volunteer for another job? CUrrent MAINTAINERS file says: UDF FILESYSTEM M: Jan Kara S: Maintained F: Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt F: fs/udf/ and that Doc. file says: For the latest version and toolset see: http://linux-udf.sourceforge.net/ > I'm having to dig into fs/udf and udftools/mkudffs as part of a project I'm working on. > It looks like both have been lacking in personal TLC for quite a while. The changes to > fs/udf seem to be tree wide VFS work but not updates to things like write support and > udftools seems to have been frozen for >10 years. Both ~work but I'd like to fix an > oops I'm getting in udftools and work on adding fallocate() support to fs/udf and then > feed it back to the community rather than let the changes bit rot locally. > > Where to go from here? I've been reading LKML on marc: for years, mainly to see what Linus, > Al and a variable group of other people say/do but I've never done more than tinker with > the kernel locally. I'm using git for the project mentioned above but again am not an > expert but willing to learn. I'm not currently subscribed so please cc me if you could. > > smk > -- ~Randy