Re: [PATCH] Remove NTFS classic

Anton Altaparmakov
2024-01-16T11:32:39Z

Hi,

> On 16 Jan 2024, at 11:06, Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 09:51:47AM +0000, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
>> It seems there is consensus to remove it so please add:
>
> Well, we'll try. This is one of those cases where we might end up not
> being able to do it.

If that happens, I am happy to update the APIs as Matthew detailed but obviously I do not want to waste my time doing that if it will be removed anyway...

Best regards,

Anton

> But imho this is a case where there's sufficient
> reason to at least try and remove this code precisely because we have an
> alternative implementation that's been around for a while.
>
> IOW, this isn't like reiserfs where we're actually getting rid of a
> filesystem completely.

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Anton Altaparmakov <anton at tuxera.com> (replace at with @)
Lead in File System Development, Tuxera Inc., http://www.tuxera.com/
Linux NTFS maintainer