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efs: Remove EFS

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The kernel EFS code has been unmaintained for over twenty years.
It was superseded on IRIX around thirty years ago.  I haven't seen an
EFS filesystem in the wild since 1999.  Userspace tools to read EFS
filesystems exist, such as https://github.com/jkbenaim/efsextract

There's no benefit to keeping this filesystem in the kernel, and it only
increases the maintenance burden for tree-wide changes.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260618211822.3599089-1-willy@infradead.org
Acked-by: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
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Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 2026-06-18 22:18:19 +01:00 • committed by Christian Brauner
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