On Fri 04-09-26 08:10:54, 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?
BFS was only ever used for boot partitions of some old unix clone (see
Tigran's initial reply). I have hard time imagining someone has some data
on such partition he wants to still read. And if such exceptional case
arises, I agree that just using old kernel in UML / VM is a viable
alternative.
> I'm all for getting rid of old cruft but there still needs to be a
> documented offramp for users.
Yes, I agree that it would be good to document this approach.
Honza
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Jan Kara <[email protected]>
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