Re: [PATCH] logfs: remove from tree

[Austin S. Hemmelgarn]

On 2016-09-12 02:55, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Sun, 2016-09-11 at 15:04 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Logfs was introduced to the kernel in 2009, and hasn't seen any non
> > drive-by changes since 2012, while having lots of unsolved issues
> > including the complete lack of error handling, with more and more
> > issues popping up without any fixes.
> >
> > The logfs.org domain has been bouncing from a mail, and the
> > maintainer
> > on the non-logfs.org domain hasn't repsonded to past queries either.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
>
> Back in 2008 logfs and UBIFS were in sort of competing projects. I
> remember we inspected logfs code and tested it - we did not find proper
> wear-levelling and bad block handling, we did not see proper error
> handling, and it exploded when we were running relatively simple tests.
> We indicated this here in a very humble way to avoid the "conflict of
> interest" perseption:
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/31/117
>
> I did not follow logfs since then, but I think there wasn't much
> development since then and all these issue are still there. I mean,
> unless I am horribly mistaken, logfs does not really have the basic
> features of a flash file system and there is no point keeping it in the
> tree and consuming people's time maintaining it.
FWIW, I tried testing it about a year ago, and got similar results both 
from the tests and from trying to contact the maintainer.