From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ipmail06.adl6.internode.on.net ([150.101.137.145]:63264 "EHLO ipmail06.adl6.internode.on.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752230AbeC0WcW (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Mar 2018 18:32:22 -0400 Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 09:32:01 +1100 From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: FreeBSD and xfsprogs ? Message-ID: <20180327223201.GR18129@dastard> References: <201803261953.w2QJrYQm028227@slippy.cwsent.com> <20180327160714.GB4818@magnolia> <8396fd92-3a64-a84f-b110-7edc6f0844b0@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8396fd92-3a64-a84f-b110-7edc6f0844b0@redhat.com> Sender: linux-xfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: List-Id: xfs To: Eric Sandeen Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" , Conrad Meyer , Cy Schubert , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Carlos Maiolino , "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" , xfs On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 11:48:29AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > On 3/27/18 11:07 AM, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > > [cc the xfsprogs maintainer] > > [cc xfs list] > > Yes, thanks. > > > On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 12:57:55PM -0700, Conrad Meyer wrote: > >> Yeah, someone broke the build recently via a base toolchain change or > >> a ports framework/compiler change. I don't think that changes > >> anything. > >> > >> On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 12:53 PM, Cy Schubert wrote: > >>> In message >>> il.com> > >>> , Conrad Meyer writes: > >>>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 12:18 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote > >>>> : > >>>>> On the Linux xfs development list there is an RFC to remove IRIX, > >>>>> Darwin, and FreeBSD support from xfsprogs, the userspace program used > >>>>> to create/interact with XFS filesystems. Just wanted to poke and check > >>>>> to ensure that FreeBSD is not interested in XFS, if this is incorrect > >>>>> now would be the good time to chime into the list and discussion. > >>>>> > >>>>> [0] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180322202102.wpff347scdmfpv62@odin.usersys. > >>>> redhat.com > >>>> > >>>> Hi Luis, > >>>> > >>>> FreeBSD 11+ can mount XFS filesystems read and write via a FUSE port > >>>> incorporating LKL[0] (sysutils/fusefs-lkl). I would appreciate > > Yikes. I'm curious, how many people use fusefs-lkl? > > > > Eric will have more to say about this, but is your xfsprogs port still > > on 3.2.4 because ./configure can't find libblkid? > > So: At this point, it seems like if you're still on a 4 year old xfsprogs > release with custom patches due to build problems we've never heard about, > there doesn't seem to be a very strong effort to keep XFS on FreeBSD thriving. > > And, given that you're stuck on 3.2.4, removing support from 4.16.0 won't > change your situation anyway. > > Are people using this? Is anyone dedicated to maintaining it, or is it > just kind of floating along at this point? > > I'd rather not keep non-building freebsd code around just in case; I'd like > to either see someone take ownership to get freebsd properly building upstream, > or just drop it and let FreeBSD keep patching on the side as you've been doing > for a few years anyway. > > Thoughts? We don't support fuse-lkl XFS filesystems on Linux, so I'm not sure that using it on some other platform compels us to maintain a current userspace tool port to those platforms... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com