On Wed, May 10, 2023, at 5:21 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > So to add to this. I happen to be at LFSMMBPF at the moment, the Linux > File System summit (among other things) where all the Linux FS people > meet. I spoke to a couple of FS maintainers here, and well, let me > make this very clear: using any of the major Linux file systems with > drivers that are not the ones in the Linux kernel is a very bad idea, > and expressly not supported by them. [They actually used much harsher > words, that I'll not repeat here – this is the "friendly" version of > their take on your idea.] > > So, unless you want to go against what the people who actually > maintain the file systems expressly say please just get this idea out > of your head that porting Linux file systems into EFI fs drivers was a > good, supportable idea. > > And Neal, Chris, if you don't believe the above, then hey, I am happy > to open a thread with them in CC where they can tell you in person how > bad an idea that is. I don't know what question you asked them. Any modifications (writes) performed outside kernel code is not supported, since forever. Read-only drivers, which are the only drivers under discussion here, aren't a per se problem because they can't modify the file system. So they have no complaints about that. -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
