Re: fs/udf and udftools

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Wed Feb 10 2016 - 20:57:12 EST


[add Jan Kara]

On 02/10/16 13:29, Steve Kenton wrote:
> Is anyone maintaining these or am I about to volunteer for another job?

CUrrent MAINTAINERS file says:

UDF FILESYSTEM
M: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
S: Maintained
F: Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt
F: fs/udf/

and that Doc. file says:

For the latest version and toolset see:
http://linux-udf.sourceforge.net/


> I'm having to dig into fs/udf and udftools/mkudffs as part of a project I'm working on.
> It looks like both have been lacking in personal TLC for quite a while. The changes to
> fs/udf seem to be tree wide VFS work but not updates to things like write support and
> udftools seems to have been frozen for >10 years. Both ~work but I'd like to fix an
> oops I'm getting in udftools and work on adding fallocate() support to fs/udf and then
> feed it back to the community rather than let the changes bit rot locally.
>
> Where to go from here? I've been reading LKML on marc: for years, mainly to see what Linus,
> Al and a variable group of other people say/do but I've never done more than tinker with
> the kernel locally. I'm using git for the project mentioned above but again am not an
> expert but willing to learn. I'm not currently subscribed so please cc me if you could.
>
> smk
>


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~Randy