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Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 02:19:06 +0000 From: Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop@...world.com> To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org> Cc: Steve Kenton <skenton@...edu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Robert Howard <bob@...usa.com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.com> Subject: Re: fs/udf and udftools On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 05:56:16PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > [add Jan Kara] > > On 02/10/16 13:29, Steve Kenton wrote: > > Is anyone maintaining these or am I about to volunteer for another job? > > CUrrent MAINTAINERS file says: > > UDF FILESYSTEM > M: Jan Kara <jack@...e.com> > S: Maintained > F: Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt > F: fs/udf/ > > and that Doc. file says: > > For the latest version and toolset see: > http://linux-udf.sourceforge.net/ > A bit of googling for udftools suggests that gentoo are maintaining their build, debian have patches for gcc-4 and gcc-5 among others, Fedora have their own patches, and Arch have some patches (which might be the same as some of hte others, I did not look). Looks like the normal "possibly abandonned, but still useful to some people" software, where distros keep it building. There may also be others. Links - https://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/sys-fs/udftools/ChangeLog?view=markup https://launchpad.net/debian/+source/udftools/+changelog http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/udftools.git/tree/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/udftools/ > > > I'm having to dig into fs/udf and udftools/mkudffs as part of a project I'm working on. > > It looks like both have been lacking in personal TLC for quite a while. The changes to > > fs/udf seem to be tree wide VFS work but not updates to things like write support and > > udftools seems to have been frozen for >10 years. Both ~work but I'd like to fix an > > oops I'm getting in udftools and work on adding fallocate() support to fs/udf and then > > feed it back to the community rather than let the changes bit rot locally. > > > > Where to go from here? I've been reading LKML on marc: for years, mainly to see what Linus, > > Al and a variable group of other people say/do but I've never done more than tinker with > > the kernel locally. I'm using git for the project mentioned above but again am not an > > expert but willing to learn. I'm not currently subscribed so please cc me if you could. > > > > smk > > > > > -- > ~Randy -- This email was written using 100% recycled letters.
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