On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 02:56:45PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > That's the best argument for removing all these old filesystems from > the kernel that anyone has made so far. > > As it is, I'm really failing to see how it can be argued > successfully that we can remove ia64 support because it has no users > and is a maintenance burden on kernel developers, but that same > argument doesn't appear to hold any weight when applied to a > filesystem. > > What makes filesystems so special we can't end-of-life them like > other kernel code? Yepp. And I don't want to remove them against major objections. If we even have a single user that actually signs up to do basic QA I think it's fair game to keep it. Similar to how we deal with most drivers (except for some subsystems like net that seemed to be a lot more aggressive in their removal schedules).
