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From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Wed, 27 Apr 2022 10:47:17 -0700
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Subject: Re: NTFS3 driver is orphan already. What we do?
To:     Kari Argillander <kari.argillander@stargateuniverse.net>
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[ Sad state of affairs mostly edited out ]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 2:22 AM Kari Argillander
<kari.argillander@stargateuniverse.net> wrote:
>
> I also did suggest that I could co maintain this driver to take burden from
> Konstantin, but haven't got any replay.

If you are willing to maintain it (and maybe find other like-minded
people to help you), I think that would certainly be a thing to try.

And if we can find *nobody* that ends up caring and maintaining, then
I guess we should remove it, rather than end up with *two* effectively
unmaintained copies of NTFS drivers.

Not that two unmaintained filesystems are much worse than one :-p

           Linus