On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 1:20 AM Christoph Hellwig [off-list ref] wrote:

The only real user of the T10 OSD protocol, the pNFS object layout
driver never went to the point of having shipping products, and we
removed it 1.5 years ago.  Exofs is just a simple example without
real life users.

The code has been mostly unmaintained for years and is getting in the
way of block / SCSI changes, so I think it's finally time to drop it.

Quote from Boaz:

"As I said then. It is used in Universities for studies and experiments.
Every once in a while. I get an email with questions and reports.

But yes feel free to remove the all thing!!

I guess I can put it up on github. In a public tree.

Just that I will need to forward port it myself, til now you guys
been doing this for me ;-)"

Hi Christoph,
Thanks for the series.  I suggest you pick up Nathan's patch:
https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/commit/a37fa82bde58960c5c966a5c1bef8ace6c9d4f34
that removed the configs that were removed in this series from the
various defconfigs.

I think the other thread still has some questions about when it's ok
to remove filesystems. But it's ultimately the maintainers decision.
Let's continue the discussion in the other thread.
-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers