On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 12:45:41PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
(adding debian-68k)
Hi Matthew!
On 04/26/2018 12:28 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
You probably put your stick into a cave with ancient sleeping dragons :)
Indeed.
Added in linux-m68k mailing list, as they likely have an opinion on how
to treat affs + RDB partition support. Also added in Jens Axboe about
patching that RDB support broken with 2 TB or larger harddisks issue
which had been in Linux kernel for 6 years while a patch exists that to
my testing back then solves the issue.
The answer is that we are still very much actively using RDB and AFFS
supoort in the Linux kernel and if you were to remove it, you would
directly hit users.
Based on that I think removing affs will not happen, but the upstream
maintenance status should be updated accordingly.
I know it may sound crazy, but the Linux/m68k port (Atari, Mac, Amiga etc)
is a very actively used and maintained port which just recently received
three new drivers:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mkp/scsi.git/commit/?h=4.18/scsi-queue&id=3109e5ae0311e937d49a5325134e50b742ac5f4a
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next.git/commit/?id=861928f4e60e826cd8871c0c37f4b3d825b8d81d
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/drivers/ata/pata_gayle.c?id=9ab27d1d35fda0c5fce624083e92546a8545e7e5
The community around the m68k CPU is constantly developing new hardware
(new accelerator boards, networking cards, IDE controllers etc for the
Amiga and so on). So, the community and the port are anything but dead.
Yeah, it's pretty sad how few commits some of these filesystems have
had in recent years. One can argue that they're stable and don't need
to be fixed because they aren't broken, but I find it hard to believe
that any of them were better-implemented than ext2 which still sees
regular bugfixes.
Exactly. It works fine as is:
...
There is nothing at the moment that needs fixing.
So, I'm willing to act as upstream maintainer for affs, send pull
requests with fixes if you ever need that (unless you find someone
else).
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