Re: [GIT PULL] vboxsf fixes for 5.14-1

From: Darrick J. Wong
Date: Thu Jul 15 2021 - 18:14:55 EST


On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 05:18:07PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 09:13:52AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > Porting to fs/iomap can be done after merge, so long as the ntfs3
> > driver doesn't depend on crazy reworking of buffer heads or whatever.
> > AFAICT it didn't, so ... yes, my earlier statements still apply: "later
> > as a clean up".
>
> I on the other hand hate piling up mor of this legacy stuff, as it tends
> to not be cleaned up by the submitted. Example: erofs still hasn't
> switched to iomap despite broad claims,

<shrug> I was letting that one go while willy tries to land all the
folio surgery on the iomap code.

> also we still have a huge backlog in the switch to the new mount API.

That's true, though having /read/ the xfs conversion series, I'm not
surprised that most maintainers don't want to do the heavy lift
themselves.

--D