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From:   Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 5 Feb 2021 23:37:46 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] fs/efs: Follow kernel style guide
To:     Amy Parker <enbyamy@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 11:26 PM Amy Parker <enbyamy@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 5:1 AM David Sterba <dsterba@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.

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Thanks,
//richard