linux-kernel - Re: fs/udf and udftools

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Message-ID: <56BCA91C.1090401@ou.edu>
Date:	Thu, 11 Feb 2016 09:30:36 -0600
From:	Steve Kenton <skenton@...edu>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop@...world.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Robert Howard <bob@...usa.com>,
	Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>
Subject: Re: fs/udf and udftools

On 02/11/2016 04:03 AM, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Wed 10-02-16 21:45:05, Steve Kenton wrote:
>> On 02/10/2016 08:19 PM, Ken Moffat wrote:
>>> 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?
>>
>> I guess I should have said "developing" rather than "maintaining" for
>> fs/udf since it's clear that someone has been keeping it running in-tree.
>> I started with udftools from source forge and then discovered that the
>> kernel udf driver does not support fallocate() which I was hoping to use.
>>
>> Thanks for the pointer to Jan Kara. I'll see how he feels about patches
>> from the wilderness.
> 
> So I don't have too much time for UDF. That's why I mostly fix bugs someone
> reports, occasionally improve stuff or review patches others send but I
> don't have time for development of new features for UDF.

OK, I'll see what I can do and try not to bother you until stuff is working well.

> 
>>>> 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/
>>
>> Yes, that's where I started. The last release was 1.0.0b3 in 2004.
>> Which is what the Ubuntu 14.04LTS package reports as it's version too.
> 
> Pali Rohar has recently startted a repo on github for udftools. It is at
> https://github.com/pali/udftools
> 
> So userspace patches go to him.

Perfect! All of my googling  pointed to source forge but this is what I was hoping for.

smk

> 
> 								Honza
>