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From: Enrico M. <mrk...@gm...> - 2024-01-15 11:08:47
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On Mon, 15 Jan 2024, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2024 12:00:35 > From: Anton Altaparmakov <an...@tu...> > To: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <wi...@in...>, > Christian Brauner <br...@ke...> > Cc: lin...@vg..., lin...@li..., > nt...@li...v, Namjae Jeon <lin...@ke...> > Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: Remove NTFS classic > > Hi Matthew, > > On 15/01/2024 07:20, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote: >> The replacement, NTFS3, was merged over two years ago. It is now time to >> remove the original from the tree as it is the last user of several APIs, >> and it is not worth changing. > > It was my impression that people are complaining ntfs3 is causing a whole lot > of problems including corrupting people's data. Also, it appears the > maintainer has basically disappeared after it got merged. To be fair - it's more like "intermittent" maintenance rather than "no maintenance". Konstantin - would it be OK for you to have a co-maintainer to help out? Enrico > > Is it really such a good idea to remove the original ntfs driver which > actually works fine and does not cause any problems when the replacement is > so poor and unmaintained? > > Also, which APIs are you referring to? I can take a look into those. > > Best regards, > > Anton > -- > Anton Altaparmakov <anton at tuxera.com> (replace at with @) > Lead in File System Development, Tuxera Inc., http://www.tuxera.com/ > Linux NTFS maintainer > > |
