On Mon, 15 Jan 2024, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2024 12:00:35
From: Anton Altaparmakov <anton@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-ntfs-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
ntfs3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: Remove NTFS classic
Hi Matthew,
On 15/01/2024 07:20, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
The replacement, NTFS3, was merged over two years ago. It is now time to
remove the original from the tree as it is the last user of several APIs,
and it is not worth changing.
It was my impression that people are complaining ntfs3 is causing a whole lot
of problems including corrupting people's data. Also, it appears the
maintainer has basically disappeared after it got merged.
To be fair - it's more like "intermittent" maintenance rather than "no maintenance".
Konstantin - would it be OK for you to have a co-maintainer to help out?
Enrico
Is it really such a good idea to remove the original ntfs driver which
actually works fine and does not cause any problems when the replacement is
so poor and unmaintained?
Also, which APIs are you referring to? I can take a look into those.
Best regards,
Anton
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Anton Altaparmakov <anton at tuxera.com> (replace at with @)
Lead in File System Development, Tuxera Inc., http://www.tuxera.com/
Linux NTFS maintainer
