Re: [RFC] Maintainership of the EFS filesystem

[Darrick J. Wong]

On Fri, Jun 05, 2026 at 11:02:44PM -0500, Maxwell Doose wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 5, 2026 at 10:44 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > As I said, I don't see the point.  Do you have any EFS filesystems?
> 
> I don't personally have any EFS filesystems but that doesn't mean that
> others don't.
> 
> > Are you volunteering to do any major development on it?
> 
> Like I said, we've already found some problems, and like I said I'd
> like to fix those before it becomes a FUSE as you suggested. So I
> guess I'll volunteer to do some major development for it as well.
> 
> > Why shouldn't we just delete it?
> 
> Because in my eyes it's an awful practice to just delete something
> overnight (probably not your plan but still), I think we need to have
> some maintenance for some time before this gets removed.

How do you plan to do QA with the EFS driver?  Is there a mkfs or fsck
program for it?  I don't see one in Debian, though I didn't search that
hard.

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