[PATCH v2 4/4] erofs: mark experimental fscache backend deprecated

Chao Yu chao at kernel.org
Thu Sep 5 19:03:07 AEST 2024


On 2024/8/30 11:28, Gao Xiang wrote:
> Although fscache is still described as "General Filesystem Caching" for
> network filesystems and other things such as ISO9660 filesystems, it has
> actually become a part of netfslib recently, which was unexpected at the
> time when "EROFS over fscache" proposed (2021) since EROFS is entirely a
> disk filesystem and the dependency is redundant.
> 
> Mark it deprecated and it will be removed after "fanotify pre-content
> hooks" lands, which will provide the same functionality for EROFS.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao at linux.alibaba.com>

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao at kernel.org>

Thanks,


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