linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] logfs: remove from tree

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Date:   Mon, 12 Sep 2016 11:53:19 +1000
From:   Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, joern@...fs.org,
        prasadjoshi.linux@...il.com, logfs@...fs.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] logfs: remove from tree

On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 03:04:22PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Logfs was introduced to the kernel in 2009, and hasn't seen any non
> drive-by changes since 2012, while having lots of unsolved issues
> including the complete lack of error handling, with more and more
> issues popping up without any fixes.
> 
> The logfs.org domain has been bouncing from a mail, and the maintainer
> on the non-logfs.org domain hasn't repsonded to past queries either.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> ---
>  Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX  |    2 -
>  Documentation/filesystems/logfs.txt |  241 ----
>  MAINTAINERS                         |    8 -
>  fs/Kconfig                          |    1 -
>  fs/Makefile                         |    1 -
>  fs/logfs/Kconfig                    |   17 -
>  fs/logfs/Makefile                   |   13 -
>  fs/logfs/compr.c                    |   95 --
>  fs/logfs/dev_bdev.c                 |  322 -----
>  fs/logfs/dev_mtd.c                  |  274 -----
>  fs/logfs/dir.c                      |  797 ------------
>  fs/logfs/file.c                     |  285 -----
>  fs/logfs/gc.c                       |  732 -----------
>  fs/logfs/inode.c                    |  428 -------
>  fs/logfs/journal.c                  |  894 --------------
>  fs/logfs/logfs.h                    |  735 -----------
>  fs/logfs/logfs_abi.h                |  629 ----------
>  fs/logfs/readwrite.c                | 2298 -----------------------------------
>  fs/logfs/segment.c                  |  961 ---------------
>  fs/logfs/super.c                    |  653 ----------

Wasn't the lib/btree.c implementation introduced with and only used
by logfs? Should that go as well?

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@...morbit.com