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What we do? To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Kari Argillander , Konstantin Komarov , ntfs3@lists.linux.dev, "Theodore Ts'o" , Christoph Hellwig , Matthew Wilcox , Eric Biggers , "Darrick J. Wong" , Christian Brauner , Al Viro , Linux Kernel Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,DKIM_VALID_EF,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on lindbergh.monkeyblade.net Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 2022-04-28 2:47 GMT+09:00, Linus Torvalds : > [ Sad state of affairs mostly edited out ] > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 2:22 AM Kari Argillander > 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. I can help him. > > 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. And I'm currently working write support on read-only NTFS(fs/ntfs) with the goal of being released in a few months. And after that, I am planning to start working fsck in ntfsprogs in ntfs-3g to solve the current lack of utility issue. Thanks! > > Not that two unmaintained filesystems are much worse than one :-p > > Linus >