From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36E21C43144 for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2018 08:40:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5B8625603 for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2018 08:40:39 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org C5B8625603 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=linux-m68k.org Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754331AbeFYIkh convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jun 2018 04:40:37 -0400 Received: from mail-ua0-f194.google.com ([209.85.217.194]:41807 "EHLO mail-ua0-f194.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752575AbeFYIkf (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jun 2018 04:40:35 -0400 Received: by mail-ua0-f194.google.com with SMTP id a5-v6so8085276uao.8; Mon, 25 Jun 2018 01:40:35 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-transfer-encoding; bh=f+WLbWLC9i5pzqwLOMCTbuHNa/67+8zYYTajmlwAKPE=; b=g8o3vVuimZBOYpAlo6pb2zoJelC6yPFdfpete+lsZFDTMPOIKjdRhb5hWyPGBen/Gx cf3KXirFldTwNqyjVkyhV/WJxjk4qWImj3/9v2zN5eIttNoPZLOhZkOXlZKwwF+xeLDg 5ltRWTBG3tmtSPJrVuKR4gHEgBH7hEwWuWChFjBeCrnDtgco2r93dZVxLXdsS+GslLqY Oko/rqHmOSZITrSe2iXhevXW8+GPSmw0itEtRwTj2Jticpr/Y3rRP9nB31oDo+eCvdsg 5q/yGD01//UYJZCEWO9u8eYu/E8nFmVxwCKgWVbo09xefGJnF+swUjSn/lcWv2A2SK26 h34Q== X-Gm-Message-State: APt69E0HCTrVnR1FnvcYRXRX3EC/n84wdIDX6D2ivZt396UPQryAnSJa zfKDj8t0V4CqlujF6k16MimUZwyK2ZRJvTVRRlA= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ADUXVKKkUEIGuc1z64yyhklkJn+33uvUlho4Yzb8XuYiJu5QnwW08up7RKfQECLUT6+535BeBJC6oA/29nLoZtJCmfM= X-Received: by 2002:ab0:5922:: with SMTP id n31-v6mr7850319uad.114.1529916034784; Mon, 25 Jun 2018 01:40:34 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20180425154602.GA8546@bombadil.infradead.org> <1910962.ItDVNtUG5Q@merkaba> <2491cfa6-c227-9c91-6630-f56d86cd80e5@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2491cfa6-c227-9c91-6630-f56d86cd80e5@gmail.com> From: Geert Uytterhoeven Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 10:40:23 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? (was: Re: Moving unmaintained filesystems to staging) To: Michael Schmitz Cc: Martin Steigerwald , Matthew Wilcox , David Sterba , Linux FS Devel , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Jens Axboe , linux-m68k , jdow , John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Michael, On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 9:53 AM Michael Schmitz wrote: > OK, I'll prepare a patch and submit it to linux-block for review. I'll Thanks a lot! > have to refer to your testing back in 2012 since all I can test is > whether the patch still allows partition tables on small disks to be > recognized at this time (unless Adrian has a 2 TB disk and a SATA-SCSI > bridge to test this properly on). Sparse file and loopback mounting with losetup --partscan? > Am 24.06.18 um 21:06 schrieb Martin Steigerwald: > > Michael Schmitz - 27.04.18, 04:11: > >> test results at https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43511 > >> indicate the RDB parser bug is fixed by the patch given there, so if > >> Martin now submits the patch, all should be well? > > Ok, better be honest than having anyone waiting for it: > > > > I do not care enough about this, in order to motivate myself preparing > > the a patch from Joanne Dow´s fix. > > > > I am not even using my Amiga boxes anymore, not even the Sam440ep which > > I still have in my apartment. > > > > So RDB support in Linux it remains broken for disks larger 2 TB, unless > > someone else does. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds