Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] logfs: remove from tree | From | Artem Bityutskiy <> | Date | Mon, 12 Sep 2016 09:55:01 +0300 |
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On Sun, 2016-09-11 at 15:04 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Logfs was introduced to the kernel in 2009, and hasn't seen any non > drive-by changes since 2012, while having lots of unsolved issues > including the complete lack of error handling, with more and more > issues popping up without any fixes. > > The logfs.org domain has been bouncing from a mail, and the > maintainer > on the non-logfs.org domain hasn't repsonded to past queries either. > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Back in 2008 logfs and UBIFS were in sort of competing projects. I remember we inspected logfs code and tested it - we did not find proper wear-levelling and bad block handling, we did not see proper error handling, and it exploded when we were running relatively simple tests. We indicated this here in a very humble way to avoid the "conflict of interest" perseption:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/31/117
I did not follow logfs since then, but I think there wasn't much development since then and all these issue are still there. I mean, unless I am horribly mistaken, logfs does not really have the basic features of a flash file system and there is no point keeping it in the tree and consuming people's time maintaining it.
Artem.
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