Re: moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? (was: Re: Moving unmaintained filesystems to staging)

2018-06-25 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
Hi Michael, On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 9:53 AM Michael Schmitz wrote: > OK, I'll prepare a patch and submit it to linux-block for review. I'll Thanks a lot! > have to refer to your testing back in 2012 since all I can test is > whether the patch still allows partition tables on small disks to be

Re: moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? (was: Re: Moving unmaintained filesystems to staging)

2018-06-25 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
Hi Michael, On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 9:53 AM Michael Schmitz wrote: > OK, I'll prepare a patch and submit it to linux-block for review. I'll Thanks a lot! > have to refer to your testing back in 2012 since all I can test is > whether the patch still allows partition tables on small disks to be

Re: moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? (was: Re: Moving unmaintained filesystems to staging)

2018-06-25 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Michael. Michael Schmitz - 25.06.18, 09:53: > OK, I'll prepare a patch and submit it to linux-block for review. I'll > have to refer to your testing back in 2012 since all I can test is > whether the patch still allows partition tables on small disks to be > recognized at this time (unless

Re: moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? (was: Re: Moving unmaintained filesystems to staging)

2018-06-25 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Michael. Michael Schmitz - 25.06.18, 09:53: > OK, I'll prepare a patch and submit it to linux-block for review. I'll > have to refer to your testing back in 2012 since all I can test is > whether the patch still allows partition tables on small disks to be > recognized at this time (unless

Re: moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? (was: Re: Moving unmaintained filesystems to staging)

2018-06-25 Thread Michael Schmitz
Hi Martin, OK, I'll prepare a patch and submit it to linux-block for review. I'll have to refer to your testing back in 2012 since all I can test is whether the patch still allows partition tables on small disks to be recognized at this time (unless Adrian has a 2 TB disk and a SATA-SCSI bridge

Re: moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? (was: Re: Moving unmaintained filesystems to staging)

2018-06-25 Thread Michael Schmitz
Hi Martin, OK, I'll prepare a patch and submit it to linux-block for review. I'll have to refer to your testing back in 2012 since all I can test is whether the patch still allows partition tables on small disks to be recognized at this time (unless Adrian has a 2 TB disk and a SATA-SCSI bridge

Re: moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? (was: Re: Moving unmaintained filesystems to staging)

2018-06-24 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi. Michael Schmitz - 27.04.18, 04:11: > test results at https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43511 > indicate the RDB parser bug is fixed by the patch given there, so if > Martin now submits the patch, all should be well? Ok, better be honest than having anyone waiting for it: I do not

Re: moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? (was: Re: Moving unmaintained filesystems to staging)

2018-06-24 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi. Michael Schmitz - 27.04.18, 04:11: > test results at https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43511 > indicate the RDB parser bug is fixed by the patch given there, so if > Martin now submits the patch, all should be well? Ok, better be honest than having anyone waiting for it: I do not

Re: moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? (was: Re: Moving unmaintained filesystems to staging)

2018-04-27 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Geert Uytterhoeven - 26.04.18, 13:08: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 12:28 PM, Martin Steigerwald > > wrote: > > You probably put your stick into a cave with ancient sleeping > > dragons > > > > Added in linux-m68k mailing list, as they likely have an opinion on > > how to

Re: moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? (was: Re: Moving unmaintained filesystems to staging)

2018-04-27 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Geert Uytterhoeven - 26.04.18, 13:08: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 12:28 PM, Martin Steigerwald > > wrote: > > You probably put your stick into a cave with ancient sleeping > > dragons > > > > Added in linux-m68k mailing list, as they likely have an opinion on > > how to treat affs + RDB

Re: moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? (was: Re: Moving unmaintained filesystems to staging)

2018-04-26 Thread Michael Schmitz
Hi Geert, test results at https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43511 indicate the RDB parser bug is fixed by the patch given there, so if Martin now submits the patch, all should be well? (MSDOS partition support is not the only one with limitations - the SGI partition parser also uses

Re: moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? (was: Re: Moving unmaintained filesystems to staging)

2018-04-26 Thread Michael Schmitz
Hi Geert, test results at https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43511 indicate the RDB parser bug is fixed by the patch given there, so if Martin now submits the patch, all should be well? (MSDOS partition support is not the only one with limitations - the SGI partition parser also uses

Re: moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? (was: Re: Moving unmaintained filesystems to staging)

2018-04-26 Thread Finn Thain
On Thu, 26 Apr 2018, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > While non-native Linux filesystem support (e.g. affs/isofs/...) could be > handled by FUSE Moving to FUSE is a great divide-and-conquer strategy for those who just want the code to die and don't care about any of the data in that format. If

Re: moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? (was: Re: Moving unmaintained filesystems to staging)

2018-04-26 Thread Finn Thain
On Thu, 26 Apr 2018, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > While non-native Linux filesystem support (e.g. affs/isofs/...) could be > handled by FUSE Moving to FUSE is a great divide-and-conquer strategy for those who just want the code to die and don't care about any of the data in that format. If

Re: moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? (was: Re: Moving unmaintained filesystems to staging)

2018-04-26 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
Hi Martin, CC jdow On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 12:28 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > You probably put your stick into a cave with ancient sleeping dragons :) > > Added in linux-m68k mailing list, as they likely have an opinion on how > to treat affs + RDB partition support.

Re: moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? (was: Re: Moving unmaintained filesystems to staging)

2018-04-26 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
Hi Martin, CC jdow On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 12:28 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > You probably put your stick into a cave with ancient sleeping dragons :) > > Added in linux-m68k mailing list, as they likely have an opinion on how > to treat affs + RDB partition support. Also added in Jens Axboe

Re: moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? (was: Re: Moving unmaintained filesystems to staging)

2018-04-26 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 12:28:40PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Added in linux-m68k mailing list, as they likely have an opinion on how > to treat affs + RDB partition support. Also added in Jens Axboe about > patching that RDB support broken with 2 TB or larger harddisks issue > which

Re: moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? (was: Re: Moving unmaintained filesystems to staging)

2018-04-26 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 12:28:40PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Added in linux-m68k mailing list, as they likely have an opinion on how > to treat affs + RDB partition support. Also added in Jens Axboe about > patching that RDB support broken with 2 TB or larger harddisks issue > which

moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? (was: Re: Moving unmaintained filesystems to staging)

2018-04-26 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Matthew. You probably put your stick into a cave with ancient sleeping dragons :) Added in linux-m68k mailing list, as they likely have an opinion on how to treat affs + RDB partition support. Also added in Jens Axboe about patching that RDB support broken with 2 TB or larger harddisks

moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? (was: Re: Moving unmaintained filesystems to staging)

2018-04-26 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Matthew. You probably put your stick into a cave with ancient sleeping dragons :) Added in linux-m68k mailing list, as they likely have an opinion on how to treat affs + RDB partition support. Also added in Jens Axboe about patching that RDB support broken with 2 TB or larger harddisks