Re: fs/udf and udftools

[Jan Kara]

On Wed 10-02-16 21:45:05, Steve Kenton wrote:
> On 02/10/2016 08:19 PM, Ken Moffat wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> I guess I should have said "developing" rather than "maintaining" for
> fs/udf since it's clear that someone has been keeping it running in-tree.
> I started with udftools from source forge and then discovered that the
> kernel udf driver does not support fallocate() which I was hoping to use.
> 
> Thanks for the pointer to Jan Kara. I'll see how he feels about patches
> from the wilderness.

So I don't have too much time for UDF. That's why I mostly fix bugs someone
reports, occasionally improve stuff or review patches others send but I
don't have time for development of new features for UDF.

> >> 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/
> 
> Yes, that's where I started. The last release was 1.0.0b3 in 2004.
> Which is what the Ubuntu 14.04LTS package reports as it's version too.

Pali Rohar has recently startted a repo on github for udftools. It is at
https://github.com/pali/udftools

So userspace patches go to him.

								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR