Re: fs/udf and udftools

[Ken Moffat]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 05:56:16PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> [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/
> 
A bit of googling for udftools suggests that gentoo are maintaining
their build, debian have patches for gcc-4 and gcc-5 among others,
Fedora have their own patches, and Arch have some patches (which
might be the same as some of hte others, I did not look).

Looks like the normal "possibly abandonned, but still useful to some
people" software, where distros keep it building.

There may also be others.

Links -

https://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/sys-fs/udftools/ChangeLog?view=markup

https://launchpad.net/debian/+source/udftools/+changelog

http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/udftools.git/tree/

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/udftools/

> 
> > 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
> > 
> 
> 
> -- 
> ~Randy

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