Re: Status of affs support in the kernel and affstools

[Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com>]

Hi Martin,

Am 13.06.2023 um 19:20 schrieb Martin Steigerwald:
> John Paul Adrian Glaubitz - 13.06.23, 08:47:11 CEST:
> > I was wondering what the current status of the affs driver in the
> > kernel is, did it receive the fixes that Michael(?) was working on? I
> > vaguely remember there were some issues with larger filesystems or so
> > and that someone was working on fixing these issues.
>
> Well I just searched for the large size fixing patches discussed on
> linux-m68k mailing list under subject titles "Amiga RDB partition
> support fixes":
>
> While I found a steady stream of fixes for affs, including related to
> Amiga permission bit handling, quite recent fixes, even in 2023, I did
> not found that size fixing patch.
>
> I recalled a discussion where Michael Schmitz talked to Jens Axboe after
> I asked whether the patch got in on 2023-08-21. I thought back then it
> would have went in, but maybe the last question asked by Jens Axboe did
> not get answered?

I can't remember leaving a question of Jens' unanswered - I can go back 
and have another look at the thread though.

I admit I've lost enthusiasm for endless follow-up when a maintainer 
just won't take a patch. Chances are I've got something wrong and it's 
possible the patch does no longer apply cleanly.

If someone else wants to take that patch and give it a fresh try, I'm OK 
with that.

> At least I did not found the patch in git history. Maybe I made a
> mistake during search.

No, it never went in as far as I know.

Cheers,

	Michael

> I will reply to the other thread and ask again. Maybe it was just a last
> question / answer round missing. Or maybe someone else can confirm that
> the patch indeed went in.
>
> Best,