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Aptivi<p><strong>SysV filesystem is being removed from Linux&nbsp;6.15</strong></p><p>In the old Unix days, there was a filesystem that implemented the Xenix FS, Coherent Unix FS, and SystemV/386 FS. It allowed file organization and access that provided the data storage service that allowed applications to access mass storage and its contents, including files and folders.</p><p>The ex-maintainer of this filesystem support for Linux systems had orphaned the filesystem maintenance back <a href="https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230216062922.2151960-1-hch@lst.de/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">in 2023</a>, when the maintainer said that there was no way to test it, with the possible removal slated in the future.</p><p>The future has come, and <a href="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git/commit/?h=vfs-6.15.sysv&amp;id=448fa70158f9b348e71869cfe4a31988e07b20b2" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jan Kara from the SUSE team</a> has pushed a commit to the VFS git that removed all code for the SysV support for Linux, which confirms that, starting from Linux 6.15, you won’t be able to access these legacy filesystems. This is because, back in 2023, Google’s Linux kernel fuzzer, <a href="https://github.com/google/syzkaller" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">syzkaller</a>, has automatically reported <a href="https://lore.kernel.org/all/0000000000000ccf9a05ee84f5b0@google.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">a bug</a> in SysV where the sleep function was called from an invalid context.</p><p>As nobody is using this filesystem in their Linux installation, it’s safe to remove this filesystem support from the kernel. This only affects computers that have both Linux and a legacy Unix system that uses this antique filesystem installed, but the amount of such computers is very small.</p><p>Once Linux 6.15 gets released, you won’t be able to use any partitions that use this filesystem.</p><p><a href="https://audiomack.com/aptivi/song/sysv-filesystem-is-being-removed-from-linux-615" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://audiomack.com/aptivi/song/sysv-filesystem-is-being-removed-from-linux-615</a></p><p><span></span></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/filesystem/" target="_blank">#Filesystem</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/fs/" target="_blank">#FS</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/kernel/" target="_blank">#Kernel</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/linux/" target="_blank">#Linux</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/linux-kernel/" target="_blank">#LinuxKernel</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/news/" target="_blank">#news</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/sysv/" target="_blank">#SysV</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/sysv-filesystem/" target="_blank">#SysVFilesystem</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/tech/" target="_blank">#Tech</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/technology/" target="_blank">#Technology</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/unix/" target="_blank">#Unix</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/update/" target="_blank">#update</a></p>
Christian Brauner 🦊🐺<p>We've removed <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/reiserfs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reiserfs</span></a> and now we're removing <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sysv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sysv</span></a> <a href="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git/log/?h=vfs-6.15.sysv" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/k</span><span class="invisible">ernel/git/vfs/vfs.git/log/?h=vfs-6.15.sysv</span></a></p><p>The code removal continues.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/kernel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kernel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fs</span></a></p>
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