Re: [PATCH 0/3] fs/efs: Follow kernel style guide

From: Amy Parker
Date: Fri Feb 05 2021 - 18:23:50 EST


On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 5:1 AM David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 08:52:14PM -0800, Amy Parker wrote:
> > As the EFS driver is old and non-maintained,
>
> Is anybody using EFS on current kernels? There's not much point updating
> it to current coding style, deleting fs/efs is probably the best option.
>

Wouldn't be surprised if there's a few systems out there that haven't
migrated at all.

> The EFS name is common for several filesystems, not to be confused with
> eg. Encrypted File System. In linux it's the IRIX version, check
> Kconfig, and you could hardly find the utilities to create such
> filesystem.

Ah yep, good point.

-Amy IP