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

Dave Kleikamp
2023-09-27T22:24:18Z

On 9/18/23 6:14AM, Jan Kara wrote:

> I agree. On the other hand each filesystem we carry imposes some
> maintenance burden (due to tree wide changes that are happening) and the
> question I have for some of them is: Do these filesystems actually bring
> any value? I.e., are there still any users left? Sadly that's quite
> difficult to answer so people do bother only if the pain is significant
> enough like in the case of reiserfs. But I suspect we could get rid of a
> few more without a real user complaining (e.g. Shaggy said he'd be happy to
> deprecate JFS and he's not aware of any users).

Sorry for the late response, but just catching up on this discussion.

When I did make that statement, I did get a response that there actually
are some users out there that want JFS to stay.

Every few weeks I do try to catch up JFS things. I can try to do so
weekly. (We'll see how that goes.) I'm not promising and major revisions
though.

Shaggy