From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-alma10-1.taild15c8.ts.net [100.103.45.18]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CFE994F052F; Fri, 4 Sep 2026 15:10:55 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1788534657; cv=none; b=YyvrNpW5w42OrM4RRVSF00XbVTWFqWYSzF8ce4gfUMpcsrp6LAJnPT07Rur32/MD2LeE9sHxcjHcpFGLO5tTm+mxgFQy3rAmUql3XUJsKXNWlpfx+iGPAsGQ0/2rTJEWWfucUe+gNT+Lr8c5L8FcAXHX2BvMWSXSobumVpzyjog= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1788534657; c=relaxed/simple; bh=A0VpHOoTUbM1tou3WIkcE6JwwQ0HC0j4IOAJoYAQEqM=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=Sh5FVlcawiUrNAE+Egq3S+lbFlCygMOYj0pCfSn6DUSHHMeftI/EmC8zTPRWebRDax7LwOHNoYXxqNby/bWwY/dRujox2v/MhWEkLy5hJ3D0dT7K6jZbiNiMl9CQ0jofzI6fq4AMmI/wWWsstUbGOgTGZ6reg9DXcQ0oG+Zma5E= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=VB3Gp389; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="VB3Gp389" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with UTF8SMTPSA id EAE621F00A3D; Fri, 4 Sep 2026 15:10:54 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kernel.org; s=k20260515; t=1788534655; bh=41xaUrJ1lAeNQeQ/qi/93VPU9j/VGLCqogvprDRRNhA=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To; b=VB3Gp389hUiJzqvsLNBiOxo9AiBTn02To+KR9uXQbCTwnr1MfN9K/mfYWPpkTQYoi YkSwXqdiH4MVDRmvZayz5DTTmd7tsTIJhqEsiBQ3VlBGcQBtX7Q6V0d1qqBAGbutA4 YBaPGJLRz8WvCU8m9I5oOD/6mQhQWDsfTzAs+Re6PhaN8sHtYH9UTWU8n/vsjGRzma YwTvxKJ6eQC0djlK9jHVUYb/cXNutoS9zDShgIfepZ+JjJGdx9OMIEewirFY6jcTaF yD2lEjdL0GwoSgI4JISCTQdxtXsBn9k9OJn4pclMED29mV+rIlc390GxVcXiR5xkzZ F3nGaY5o8zg9Q== Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2026 08:10:54 -0700 From: "Darrick J. Wong" To: Christian Brauner Cc: Shuah Khan , Randy Dunlap , Michael Ellerman , Nicholas Piggin , "Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" , Jan Kara , Jakub Kicinski , Namjae Jeon , Hisam Mehboob , Martin =?utf-8?Q?Kepplinger-Novakovi=C4=87?= , Amir Goldstein , Bagas Sanjaya , Lorenzo Stoakes , Eric Biggers , Geert Uytterhoeven , David Howells , Thomas Bogendoerfer , Theodore Ts'o , Catalin Iacob , Stephen Hemminger , Andrew Lunn , "Maciej W. Rozycki" , Andrei Vagin , Wei Yang , Bhavik Sachdev , Andrew Morton , Wang Yan , Bala-Vignesh-Reddy , Malaya Kumar Rout , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, Ethan Nelson-Moore , Luis de Bethencourt , Salah Triki , Jonathan Corbet , "Tigran A. Aivazian" , Madhavan Srinivasan , Alexander Viro Subject: Re: [PATCH] bfs: remove the filesystem Message-ID: <20260904151054.GG6047@frogsfrogsfrogs> References: <20260904082954.48738-1-enelsonmoore@gmail.com> <20260904-hinnimmt-triumphieren-handgefertigt-4e51fe2ed659@brauner> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260904-hinnimmt-triumphieren-handgefertigt-4e51fe2ed659@brauner> On Fri, Sep 04, 2026 at 12:43:09PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote: > On Fri, 04 Sep 2026 01:29:19 -0700, Ethan Nelson-Moore wrote: > > bfs: remove the filesystem > > I agree. At the moment, I don't. Nowhere in this thread does anyone mention what someone with a B(oot)FS filesystem image should do if they want to extract whatever's stored in the filesystem. Are there userspace tools for that purpose (ala efs)? Does "binwalk -e $bfs_image" suffice for that purpose? Or is there solid evidence that there isn't even a single user (ala freevxfs) who strongly wants it to stay in? I'm all for getting rid of old cruft but there still needs to be a documented offramp for users. --D > --- > > Applied to the vfs-7.4.bfs branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree. > Patches in the vfs-7.4.bfs branch should appear in linux-next soon. > > Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a > new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it. > > It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the > patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated. > > Note that commit hashes shown below are subject to change due to rebase, > trailer updates or similar. If in doubt, please check the listed branch. > > tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git > branch: vfs-7.4.bfs > > [1/1] bfs: remove the filesystem > https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/e36781a626b2 > >