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

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Message-ID: <20070521150937.GB6957@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 21 May 2007 11:09:37 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	rdunlap@...otime.net
Subject: Re: RFC: Schedule EFS for removal.

On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 04:02:42PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
 > 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.

Ah, that woke people up :-)
Ok, patch rescinded.  Any opinion on what to do about that bug?

"use loopback" would be one option I guess.
Given its been an open bug for four years, there's obviously
not that much interest in fixing the filesystem.

	Dave

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