On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 11:37:46PM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote: > On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 11:26 PM Amy Parker <enby...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 5:1 AM David Sterba <dste...@suse.cz> 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. > > Before ripping it from the kernel source you could do a FUSE port of EFS. > That way old filesystems can still get used on Linux.
Agreed, replacing the obsolete filesystems by FUSE implementations would be great. Regarding EFS I got pointed to https://github.com/sophaskins/efs2tar that allows to access the old IRIX CDs (can be found on archive.org), so there's something.
