--- title: Linux 7.3 Expected To Drop The FreeVxFS File-System Driver description: The FreeVxFS read-only Linux kernel driver for the Veritas VxFS file system — historically used by HP-UX and SCO UnixWare — is being removed from the mainline... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/linux-7-3-expected-to-drop-the-freevxfs-file-system-driver-id6e5y1mu twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Linux 7.3 Expected To Drop The FreeVxFS File-System Driver | daily.dev og:description: The FreeVxFS read-only Linux kernel driver for the Veritas VxFS file system — historically used by HP-UX and SCO UnixWare — is being removed from the mainline... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/linux-7-3-expected-to-drop-the-freevxfs-file-system-driver-id6e5y1mu og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/id6E5Y1MU.png og:image:alt: Linux 7.3 Expected To Drop The FreeVxFS File-System Driver og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Linux 7.3 Expected To Drop The FreeVxFS File-System Driver **[Phoronix](https://daily.dev/sources/phoronix)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The FreeVxFS read-only Linux kernel driver for the Veritas VxFS file system — historically used by HP-UX and SCO UnixWare — is being removed from the mainline kernel, targeted for the Linux 7.3 merge window. Maintainer Christoph Hellwig queued the removal patch, citing only one known user/contributor in the past 15 years and the growing noise generated by automated bug checkers and AI coding agents flagging issues in rarely-used legacy code. Users who still need FreeVxFS access can remain on an older kernel or maintain the driver out-of-tree. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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