Hi, > On 16 Jan 2024, at 11:06, Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 09:51:47AM +0000, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: >> It seems there is consensus to remove it so please add: > > Well, we'll try. This is one of those cases where we might end up not > being able to do it. If that happens, I am happy to update the APIs as Matthew detailed but obviously I do not want to waste my time doing that if it will be removed anyway... Best regards, Anton > But imho this is a case where there's sufficient > reason to at least try and remove this code precisely because we have an > alternative implementation that's been around for a while. > > IOW, this isn't like reiserfs where we're actually getting rid of a > filesystem completely. -- Anton Altaparmakov <anton at tuxera.com> (replace at with @) Lead in File System Development, Tuxera Inc., http://www.tuxera.com/ Linux NTFS maintainer