2022-04-28 2:47 GMT+09:00, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > [ Sad state of affairs mostly edited out ] > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 2:22 AM Kari Argillander > <kari.argillander@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> I also did suggest that I could co maintain this driver to take burden >> from >> Konstantin, but haven't got any replay. > > If you are willing to maintain it (and maybe find other like-minded > people to help you), I think that would certainly be a thing to try. I can help him. > > And if we can find *nobody* that ends up caring and maintaining, then > I guess we should remove it, rather than end up with *two* effectively > unmaintained copies of NTFS drivers. And I'm currently working write support on read-only NTFS(fs/ntfs) with the goal of being released in a few months. And after that, I am planning to start working fsck in ntfsprogs in ntfs-3g to solve the current lack of utility issue. Thanks! > > Not that two unmaintained filesystems are much worse than one :-p > > Linus >
