Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 09:32:01 +1100 From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>, Conrad Meyer <cem@freebsd.org>, Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com>, "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>, Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org>, xfs <linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD and xfsprogs ? Message-ID: <20180327223201.GR18129@dastard> In-Reply-To: <8396fd92-3a64-a84f-b110-7edc6f0844b0@redhat.com> References: <cem@freebsd.org> <CAG6CVpU3qe10UUY6B-N4fs9WTwwUerVcJh0CrP22D8hvB4Z14Q@mail.gmail.com> <201803261953.w2QJrYQm028227@slippy.cwsent.com> <CAG6CVpXi3rb-NfLUXQqzStipmwRviKJPMpgKeQA9DfBmOWJ5oQ@mail.gmail.com> <20180327160714.GB4818@magnolia> <8396fd92-3a64-a84f-b110-7edc6f0844b0@redhat.com>
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On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 11:48:29AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > On 3/27/18 11:07 AM, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > > [cc the xfsprogs maintainer] > > [cc xfs list] > > Yes, thanks. > > > On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 12:57:55PM -0700, Conrad Meyer wrote: > >> Yeah, someone broke the build recently via a base toolchain change or > >> a ports framework/compiler change. I don't think that changes > >> anything. > >> > >> On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 12:53 PM, Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> wrote: > >>> In message <CAG6CVpU3qe10UUY6B-N4fs9WTwwUerVcJh0CrP22D8hvB4Z14Q@mail.gma > >>> il.com> > >>> , Conrad Meyer writes: > >>>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 12:18 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org> wrote > >>>> : > >>>>> On the Linux xfs development list there is an RFC to remove IRIX, > >>>>> Darwin, and FreeBSD support from xfsprogs, the userspace program used > >>>>> to create/interact with XFS filesystems. Just wanted to poke and check > >>>>> to ensure that FreeBSD is not interested in XFS, if this is incorrect > >>>>> now would be the good time to chime into the list and discussion. > >>>>> > >>>>> [0] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180322202102.wpff347scdmfpv62@odin.usersys. > >>>> redhat.com > >>>> > >>>> Hi Luis, > >>>> > >>>> FreeBSD 11+ can mount XFS filesystems read and write via a FUSE port > >>>> incorporating LKL[0] (sysutils/fusefs-lkl). I would appreciate > > Yikes. I'm curious, how many people use fusefs-lkl? > > > > Eric will have more to say about this, but is your xfsprogs port still > > on 3.2.4 because ./configure can't find libblkid? > > So: At this point, it seems like if you're still on a 4 year old xfsprogs > release with custom patches due to build problems we've never heard about, > there doesn't seem to be a very strong effort to keep XFS on FreeBSD thriving. > > And, given that you're stuck on 3.2.4, removing support from 4.16.0 won't > change your situation anyway. > > Are people using this? Is anyone dedicated to maintaining it, or is it > just kind of floating along at this point? > > I'd rather not keep non-building freebsd code around just in case; I'd like > to either see someone take ownership to get freebsd properly building upstream, > or just drop it and let FreeBSD keep patching on the side as you've been doing > for a few years anyway. > > Thoughts? We don't support fuse-lkl XFS filesystems on Linux, so I'm not sure that using it on some other platform compels us to maintain a current userspace tool port to those platforms... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com
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