Re: [RFC] Maintainership of the EFS filesystem

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Fri, Jun 05, 2026 at 09:52:19PM -0500, Maxwell Doose wrote:
> Hi Christian, Al,
> 
> I recently sent a patch for the EFS filesystem [1]. While writing that
> patch, which fixed code that was now incompatible with the latest GCC
> (+ an undefined variable), I discovered that the EFS filesystem was
> orphaned and without a maintainer. I inquired with Andrew Morton, the
> person who merged my patch, about potentially taking over
> maintainership for EFS. He noted that he was fine with it [2], and he
> directed me to Christian regarding this possibility. As the subject
> suggests, I'd like to take over maintainership of EFS, if it's fine
> with you all.

As I said, I don't see the point.  Do you have any EFS filesystems?
Are you volunteering to do any major development on it?  Why shouldn't
we just delete it?