On 2/18/25 12:36 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Feb 06, 2025 at 03:03:32PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote: >> From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> >> >> Aheada of deprecating V4 support in the kernel, let's give people a way >> to extract their files from a filesystem without needing to mount. > > So I've wanted a userspace file access for a while, but if we deprecate > the v4 support in the kernel that will propagte to libxfs quickly, > and this code won't help you with v4 file systems either. So I don't > think the rationale here seems very good. I agree. And, I had considered "migrate your V4 fs via an older kernel" to be a perfectly acceptable answer for the v4 deprecation scenario. Christoph, can you say more about why you're eager for the functionality? Thanks, -Eric
