linux-kernel - Re: RFC: Schedule EFS for removal.

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Message-ID: <20070521150242.GA25146@infradead.org>
Date:	Mon, 21 May 2007 16:02:42 +0100
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	rdunlap@...otime.net
Subject: Re: RFC: Schedule EFS for removal.

On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:46:18AM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> EFS aparently is broken (See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1020)
> has been so for some time, and attempts to fix it have been rejected.
> Given there's a userspace app to access these volumes, how
> about scheduling it for removal ?

It works perfectly fine, just not with the odd blocksizes on cdroms.
SGI Australia folks are using it for exporting their irix cdrom images
to various nfs systems for example, and I added that support long after
the bug was opened.

So clear NACK for this.
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