How do you even get to a point where you submit a fix to a driver you don’t personally use, which has been obsolete for 30 years?
I mean, if you want to become a kernel maintainer that can be a valid approach. Of course in this case it doesn’t make much sense but I don’t blame them for trying
What is it with file systems? ext4 is fast, for some use cases XFS is faster and there’s that. No wear-leveling in hardware? F2FS. Advanced stuff? btrfs or ZFS. Something super basic? FAT32. Might need to include one more for NVRAM.
I wish this was even close to all file systems still in use.
I don’t understand your comment — are you arguing that the large variety of filesystems shouldn’t exist or something else?
If there is a single SGI device still in use on the planet, I would be shocked.
Have you looked at a vintage computer YouTube channel?
