Re: [PATCH] fs: efs: Fix compilation bug and use pr_debug()

[Maxwell Doose]

On Thu, Jun 4, 2026 at 10:27 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 04, 2026 at 10:16:44PM -0500, Maxwell Doose wrote:
> > ps: I noticed this was listed as an orphan in MAINTAINERS. I'd be
> > happy to step up and maintain this, I've got a bit of experience
> > maintaining stuff in iio. Hopefully this isn't too far-fetched!
>
> I'd be just as happy to see it deleted.  efs was succeeded by XFS in
> the mid-90s.  The last efs filesystem I personally saw was in 1999 (an
> SGI Freeware CD).  If there's any filesystem crying out to be converted
> to FUSE and removed from the kernel, this is it.

I guess that is a fair point. But given the fact that we quite
literally just found a compile-time bug I think there may be further
underlying issues that need to be resolved before conversion to FUSE
:/