linux-kernel - Re: Is it time to remove reiserfs?

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Message-ID: <fbc744c9-e22f-138c-2da3-f76c3edfcc3d@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 21 Feb 2022 00:21:12 +0100
From:   Edward Shishkin <edward.shishkin@...il.com>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, reiserfs-devel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: Is it time to remove reiserfs?

On 02/20/2022 01:13 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> Keeping reiserfs in the tree has certain costs.  For example, I would
> very much like to remove the 'flags' argument to ->write_begin.  We have
> the infrastructure in place to handle AOP_FLAG_NOFS differently, but
> AOP_FLAG_CONT_EXPAND is still around, used only by reiserfs.


Please, consider the patch (next email in the thread) which drops that
flag from reiserfs.

Thanks,
Edward.