Re: Why isn't F2FS support in the Kernel?

2014-12-25 Thread Eduardo Javier Echeverria Alvarado
FWIW, I see that f2fs-tools is in fedora, but it's a bit old, at v1.2.0 while upstream is at 1.4.0. (http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs-tools.git) If you're agitating for movement in the kernel, might want to give the userspace pkg maintainer ( echevemaster ) a heads

Re: Why isn't F2FS support in the Kernel?

2014-12-25 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: UDF has been in the best position to do this for ~ 20 years, seeing as it has had Windows, OS X, and linux distro support for most of that time frame. And yet it didn't supplant FAT or NTFS on flash media on any

Re: Why isn't F2FS support in the Kernel?

2014-12-24 Thread Matěj Cepl
On 2014-12-22, 17:20 GMT, Gerald B. Cox wrote: It isn't about a single module... you're a smart guy... you know better. I think you are a smart guy so you know better as well than ask somebody else to work for you on your pet project. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Building_a_custom_kernel

Re: Why isn't F2FS support in the Kernel?

2014-12-24 Thread drago01
On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Matěj Cepl mc...@cepl.eu wrote: On 2014-12-22, 17:20 GMT, Gerald B. Cox wrote: It isn't about a single module... you're a smart guy... you know better. I think you are a smart guy so you know better as well than ask somebody else to work for you on your pet

Re: Why isn't F2FS support in the Kernel?

2014-12-24 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 3:00 AM, Matěj Cepl mc...@cepl.eu wrote: I think you are a smart guy so you know better as well than ask somebody else to work for you on your pet project. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Building_a_custom_kernel Thanks for the link, I'll take a look at it. I don't

Re: Why isn't F2FS support in the Kernel?

2014-12-24 Thread Matěj Cepl
On 2014-12-24, 11:10 GMT, drago01 wrote: I think you are a smart guy so you know better as well than ask somebody else to work for you on your pet project. He already apologized ... no need to dig out the old mails ... let the thread die. Yes, my point was mainly to post the URL of building

Re: Why isn't F2FS support in the Kernel?

2014-12-24 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 24.12.2014 um 21:20 schrieb Matěj Cepl: On 2014-12-24, 11:10 GMT, drago01 wrote: I think you are a smart guy so you know better as well than ask somebody else to work for you on your pet project. He already apologized ... no need to dig out the old mails ... let the thread die. Yes, my

Re: Why isn't F2FS support in the Kernel?

2014-12-24 Thread Matěj Cepl
On 2014-12-24, 20:59 GMT, Reindl Harald wrote: then why did you write the angry *PLONK? PLONK is not angry. http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/P/plonk.html defines it in this way: plonk: excl.,vt. [Usenet: possibly influenced by British slang ‘plonk’ for cheap booze, or ‘plonker’

Re: Why isn't F2FS support in the Kernel?

2014-12-24 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Gerald B. Cox gb...@bzb.us wrote: From what I read it has the possibility of getting rid of FAT / NTFS on flash devices; which would be a good thing - and I thought that would be something the Fedora community would be interested with participating. UDF has

Re: Why isn't F2FS support in the Kernel?

2014-12-22 Thread Josh Boyer
On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 11:09 PM, Gerald B. Cox gb...@bzb.us wrote: Yes, I looked at that bug report and the somewhat terse response. I thought I'd post here first before I went the bugzilla route. Based upon the information I discovered tonight it seems a bit puzzling it isn't included.

Re: Why isn't F2FS support in the Kernel?

2014-12-22 Thread Gerald B. Cox
Incredulous yes, angry no. I came here instead of bugzilla because I thought the issue needed a wider audience - especially since it's made its way into the linux media. IMO the decision to exclude F2FS was a mistake. The arguments stated as to why it wasn't included don't really stand up to

Re: Why isn't F2FS support in the Kernel?

2014-12-22 Thread Eric Sandeen
On 12/22/14 8:16 AM, Josh Boyer wrote: On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 11:09 PM, Gerald B. Cox gb...@bzb.us wrote: Yes, I looked at that bug report and the somewhat terse response. I thought I'd post here first before I went the bugzilla route. Based upon the information I discovered tonight it

Re: Why isn't F2FS support in the Kernel?

2014-12-22 Thread Josh Boyer
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Gerald B. Cox gb...@bzb.us wrote: Please don't top post. Incredulous yes, angry no. I came here instead of bugzilla because I thought the issue needed a wider audience - especially since it's made its way into the linux media. IMO the decision to exclude

Re: Why isn't F2FS support in the Kernel?

2014-12-22 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 8:16 AM, Josh Boyer jwbo...@fedoraproject.org wrote: Really? It's very disappointing that a single module that isn't used for anything in Fedora itself is disabled? I understand the desire to want to tinker, but to be very disappointed in this is... well it's odd.

Re: Why isn't F2FS support in the Kernel?

2014-12-22 Thread Naheem Zaffar
Trying to turn this discussion into something more productive and deliberately ignoring the negativity: What is the present position/plan for f2fs in Fedora? Is there any hardware out there that uses it? -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Why isn't F2FS support in the Kernel?

2014-12-22 Thread Josh Boyer
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Gerald B. Cox gb...@bzb.us wrote: On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 8:16 AM, Josh Boyer jwbo...@fedoraproject.org wrote: Really? It's very disappointing that a single module that isn't used for anything in Fedora itself is disabled? I understand the desire to want

Re: Why isn't F2FS support in the Kernel?

2014-12-22 Thread Josh Boyer
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Naheem Zaffar naheemzaf...@gmail.com wrote: Trying to turn this discussion into something more productive and deliberately ignoring the negativity: :) What is the present position/plan for f2fs in Fedora? We'll likely enable it after looking at it a bit

Re: Why isn't F2FS support in the Kernel?

2014-12-22 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Josh Boyer jwbo...@fedoraproject.org wrote: Is there any hardware out there that uses it? Aside from the hardware already mentioned in this thread, which Fedora doesn't run on, there might be some generic ARM boards that could use it. One use that quickly

Re: Why isn't F2FS support in the Kernel?

2014-12-22 Thread Eric Sandeen
On 12/22/14 12:12 PM, Gerald B. Cox wrote: On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Josh Boyer jwbo...@fedoraproject.org mailto:jwbo...@fedoraproject.org wrote: Is there any hardware out there that uses it? Aside from the hardware already mentioned in this thread, which Fedora

Re: Why isn't F2FS support in the Kernel?

2014-12-22 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Josh Boyer jwbo...@fedoraproject.org wrote: Ah. I see. To you this is just a single instance of some wider problem. Sure, OK. I'm not comfortable flipping on random filesystems as soon as they show up. Similarly, I don't think it's helpful to enable

Re: Why isn't F2FS support in the Kernel?

2014-12-22 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Gerald B. Cox wrote: Well, I don't think the majority of folks would agree that F2FS is some random filesystem. You'll either turn it on, or explain why not. The community can then judge for themselves. That is not how it works. The default position

Re: Why isn't F2FS support in the Kernel?

2014-12-22 Thread Gerald B. Cox
The XFStest scenario assumes that Fedora is being somewhat innovative... in this instance we're not. We're playing catch-up. The horse has already left the barn. The longer we delay, the sillier we look. The requirement is obvious. The bugzilla on it is active. They'll either turn it on, or

Re: Why isn't F2FS support in the Kernel?

2014-12-22 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Gerald B. Cox wrote: The XFStest scenario assumes that Fedora is being somewhat innovative... in this instance we're not. We're playing catch-up. The horse has already left the barn. The longer we delay, the sillier we look. The requirement is obvious.

Re: Why isn't F2FS support in the Kernel?

2014-12-22 Thread Gerald B. Cox
What exactly more do you propose? Re-create the wheel? Tests have already been run. A URL has already been posted in the bugzilla record showing a video where Dave Chinner discusses it. It's being used in consumer devices now. There is nothing to convince. The facts speak for themselves.

Re: Why isn't F2FS support in the Kernel?

2014-12-22 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 22 December 2014 at 12:19, Gerald B. Cox gb...@bzb.us wrote: What exactly more do you propose? Re-create the wheel? Tests have already been run. A URL has already been posted in the bugzilla record showing a video where Dave Chinner discusses it. It's being used in consumer devices

Re: Why isn't F2FS support in the Kernel?

2014-12-22 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Stephen John Smoogen smo...@gmail.com wrote: No they do not have all the information needed. What they know is that some other distribution ships it and that it works in a device using a custom kernel. How does it work on a normal drive, how does it not work,

Re: Why isn't F2FS support in the Kernel?

2014-12-22 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 22.12.2014 um 20:57 schrieb Gerald B. Cox: On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: No they do not have all the information needed. What they know is that some other distribution ships it and that it works in a device using a custom kernel. How does it work

Re: Why isn't F2FS support in the Kernel?

2014-12-22 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Gerald B. Cox wrote: If no one else was using this, that would be another thing. You're also making up rules that weren't applied to other products which are included in Fedora; It applies to filesystems enabled in Fedora. Someone has to do the

Re: Why isn't F2FS support in the Kernel?

2014-12-22 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: *wow* and i am accused to be abusive repeatly? LOL... Yeah, it's kind of hard to gauge when to just shut-up in this group. I don't believe that I said anything abusive, and that was not my intent. If I hurt someones

Re: Why isn't F2FS support in the Kernel?

2014-12-22 Thread Stephen Gallagher
On Mon, 2014-12-22 at 11:57 -0800, Gerald B. Cox wrote: On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Stephen John Smoogen smo...@gmail.com wrote: No they do not have all the information needed. What they know is that some other distribution ships it and that it works in a

Re: Why isn't F2FS support in the Kernel?

2014-12-22 Thread Gerald B. Cox
Please accept my apologies. My initial post was sufficient to make my point. On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: On Mon, 2014-12-22 at 11:57 -0800, Gerald B. Cox wrote: On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Stephen John Smoogen smo...@gmail.com

Re: Why isn't F2FS support in the Kernel?

2014-12-22 Thread Josh Boyer
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Gerald B. Cox gb...@bzb.us wrote: Please accept my apologies. My initial post was sufficient to make my point. Your post had sufficient information for us to reevaluate F2FS, yes. Thanks for that. josh -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Why isn't F2FS support in the Kernel?

2014-12-22 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Josh Boyer jwbo...@fedoraproject.org wrote: Your post had sufficient information for us to reevaluate F2FS, yes. Thanks for that. You're very welcome. Glad I could help. Thanks for keeping an open mind and taking the time to reevaluate. It is much

Re: Why isn't F2FS support in the Kernel?

2014-12-21 Thread Orion Poplawski
On 12/21/2014 07:48 PM, Gerald B. Cox wrote: I was wanting to play around with F2FS about 6 months ago, found it wasn't yet included in the F20 kernel (even though Fedora packages f2fs-tools?). I did a quick search and found some comments basically saying it was under heavy development, stay

Re: Why isn't F2FS support in the Kernel?

2014-12-21 Thread Gerald B. Cox
Yes, I looked at that bug report and the somewhat terse response. I thought I'd post here first before I went the bugzilla route. Based upon the information I discovered tonight it seems a bit puzzling it isn't included. Seriously, Ubuntu includes it and we don't? Google is using it for the