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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> X-Mailing-List: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org List-Id: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Archive: , List-Subscribe: , , List-Unsubscribe: Precedence: list 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 > >