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

Matthew Wilcox
2023-09-07T03:26:24Z

On Wed, Sep 06, 2023 at 10:51:39PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> I guess the point I'm making is, what's the burden in keeping it around in
> the read-only state? It shouldn't require any updates for new features,
> which is the complaint I believe Willy was having.

Old filesystems depend on old core functionality like bufferheads.

We want to remove bufferheads.

Who has the responsibility for updating those old filesystmes to use
iomap instead of bufferheads?

Who has the responsibility for testing those filesystems still work
after the update?

Who has the responsibility for looking at a syzbot bug report that comes
in twelve months after the conversion is done and deciding whether the
conversion was the problem, or whether it's some other patch that
happened before or after?