On Fri, Sep 04, 2026 at 08:10:54AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > On Fri, Sep 04, 2026 at 12:43:09PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote: > > On Fri, 04 Sep 2026 01:29:19 -0700, Ethan Nelson-Moore wrote: > > > bfs: remove the filesystem > > > > I agree. > > At the moment, I don't. Nowhere in this thread does anyone mention what > someone with a B(oot)FS filesystem image should do if they want to > extract whatever's stored in the filesystem. Are there userspace tools > for that purpose (ala efs)? Does "binwalk -e $bfs_image" suffice for > that purpose? Or is there solid evidence that there isn't even a single > user (ala freevxfs) who strongly wants it to stay in? > > I'm all for getting rid of old cruft but there still needs to be a > documented offramp for users.
Use an older/downstream version of linux? :) It's like the museum piece arch stuff - people argue vigorously in favour of nommu (which btw is a variety of linux that _doesn't implement forking_ :))) gesticulating at talks given at conferences etc. But then never quite answer the 'why not use an older version of linux' or 'why not just maintain it downstraem for the 3 people who need it'. Also worth consider what the Venn diagram overlap of bfs users and people running even-vaguely-tip kernels/likely to ever upgrade is. Quite likely zero I expect? I get the desire not to lose people their data, but the code's not gone away forever :) > > --D > > > --- > > > > Applied to the vfs-7.4.bfs branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree. > > Patches in the vfs-7.4.bfs branch should appear in linux-next soon. > > > > Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a > > new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it. > > > > It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the > > patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated. > > > > Note that commit hashes shown below are subject to change due to rebase, > > trailer updates or similar. If in doubt, please check the listed branch. > > > > tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git > > branch: vfs-7.4.bfs > > > > [1/1] bfs: remove the filesystem > > https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/e36781a626b2 > > > > -- Cheers, Lorenzo
