Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: fs/udf and udftools | From | Steve Kenton <> | Date | Wed, 10 Feb 2016 21:45:05 -0600 |
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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.
>> >> CUrrent MAINTAINERS file says: >> >> UDF FILESYSTEM >> M: Jan Kara <jack@suse.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.
>> > A bit of googling for udftools suggests that gentoo are maintaining > their build, debian have patches for gcc-4 and gcc-5 among others, > Fedora have their own patches, and Arch have some patches (which > might be the same as some of hte others, I did not look). > > Looks like the normal "possibly abandonned, but still useful to some > people" software, where distros keep it building.
Yep, that's where my ~works came from. Ah, thanks for the links. I'll pull them all together and see what's there.
smk
> > There may also be others. > > Links - > > https://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/sys-fs/udftools/ChangeLog?view=markup > > https://launchpad.net/debian/+source/udftools/+changelog > > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/udftools.git/tree/ > > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/udftools/ > >> >>> I'm having to dig into fs/udf and udftools/mkudffs as part of a project I'm working on. >>> It looks like both have been lacking in personal TLC for quite a while. The changes to >>> fs/udf seem to be tree wide VFS work but not updates to things like write support and >>> udftools seems to have been frozen for >10 years. Both ~work but I'd like to fix an >>> oops I'm getting in udftools and work on adding fallocate() support to fs/udf and then >>> feed it back to the community rather than let the changes bit rot locally. >>> >>> Where to go from here? I've been reading LKML on marc: for years, mainly to see what Linus, >>> Al and a variable group of other people say/do but I've never done more than tinker with >>> the kernel locally. I'm using git for the project mentioned above but again am not an >>> expert but willing to learn. I'm not currently subscribed so please cc me if you could. >>> >>> smk >>> >> >> >> -- >> ~Randy >
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