Re: [RFC] Maintainership of the EFS filesystem

[Maxwell Doose]

On Fri, Jun 5, 2026 at 11:21 PM Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 05, 2026 at 11:02:44PM -0500, Maxwell Doose wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 5, 2026 at 10:44 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > As I said, I don't see the point.  Do you have any EFS filesystems?
> >
> > I don't personally have any EFS filesystems but that doesn't mean that
> > others don't.
> >
> > > Are you volunteering to do any major development on it?
> >
> > Like I said, we've already found some problems, and like I said I'd
> > like to fix those before it becomes a FUSE as you suggested. So I
> > guess I'll volunteer to do some major development for it as well.
> >
> > > Why shouldn't we just delete it?
> >
> > Because in my eyes it's an awful practice to just delete something
> > overnight (probably not your plan but still), I think we need to have
> > some maintenance for some time before this gets removed.
>
> How do you plan to do QA with the EFS driver?  Is there a mkfs or fsck
> program for it?  I don't see one in Debian, though I didn't search that
> hard.

I also sent this email to Al, but my guess is that there are
images/disks archived on the internet that we can use for testing, so
we can just compile the kernel module and mount an EFS image. I also
did a quick google search and found that the utilities can be emulated
to create new images, but I imagine that that would be much more
difficult then getting images off of the internet.