Re: [RFC] Maintainership of the EFS filesystem

From: Maxwell Doose

Date: Sat Jun 06 2026 - 01:20:07 EST


On Fri, Jun 5, 2026 at 11:28 PM Maxwell Doose <m32285159@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Fri, Jun 5, 2026 at 11:21 PM Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Out of curiosity - had there been anything beside the "some code that
> > had been ifdefed out since forever doesn't even build these days"
> > I've seen mentioned a while ago?
> >

Forgot to answer this; I've been looking through the files and already
found more ifdefs but also a lot of style issues, most notably
trailing whitespace (eek!). I'm still auditing the files but it's 1am
over here so I'm going to continue in the morning.

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best regards,
max