Re: [MAINTAINERS/KERNEL SUMMIT] Trust and maintenance of file systems

Bagas Sanjaya
2023-09-07T00:46:22Z

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[disclaimer: I'm no expert here, just my opinion]

On Wed, Sep 06, 2023 at 12:23:22AM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> I really feel we're between a rock and a hard place with our unmaintained
> filesystems. They have users who care passionately, but not the ability
> to maintain them.

In OTW: these fses are in limbo state, which induces another question:
how to get users of these into developers (and possibly maintainers)
to get out of this unfortunate situation? Do we have to keep
deprecated APIs they use indefinitely for the sake of servicing them without
any transition plan to replacement APIs? Do akpm have to step in for that to
happen?

Thanks.

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