Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 May 2007 11:09:37 -0400 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: RFC: Schedule EFS for removal. |
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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Ah, that woke people up :-) Ok, patch rescinded.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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