linux-kernel - Re: NTFS3 driver is orphan already. What we do?

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Message-ID: <CAHk-=wihuvzVTozzNLZT=uFzJH6uM7ZNKN7fYVpm0v2KkY6Jxg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 27 Apr 2022 10:47:17 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Kari Argillander <kari.argillander@...rgateuniverse.net>
Cc:     Konstantin Komarov <almaz.alexandrovich@...agon-software.com>,
        ntfs3@...ts.linux.dev, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>,
        "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...nel.org>,
        Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: NTFS3 driver is orphan already. What we do?

[ Sad state of affairs mostly edited out ]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 2:22 AM Kari Argillander
<kari.argillander@...rgateuniverse.net> wrote:
>
> I also did suggest that I could co maintain this driver to take burden from
> Konstantin, but haven't got any replay.

If you are willing to maintain it (and maybe find other like-minded
people to help you), I think that would certainly be a thing to try.

And if we can find *nobody* that ends up caring and maintaining, then
I guess we should remove it, rather than end up with *two* effectively
unmaintained copies of NTFS drivers.

Not that two unmaintained filesystems are much worse than one :-p

           Linus