linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] erofs: move erofs out of staging

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Date:   Sun, 18 Aug 2019 11:21:13 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@....com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>,
        Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
        David Sterba <dsterba@...e.cz>, Miao Xie <miaoxie@...wei.com>,
        devel <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Darrick <darrick.wong@...cle.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>,
        linux-erofs <linux-erofs@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>, tytso <tytso@....edu>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Li Guifu <bluce.liguifu@...wei.com>,
        Fang Wei <fangwei1@...wei.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@...x.de>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] erofs: move erofs out of staging

----- Ursprüngliche Mail -----
> You have looked at reiserfs lately, right?  :)

Don't remind me of that. ;-)
 
> Not to say that erofs shouldn't be worked on to fix these kinds of
> issues, just that it's not an unheard of thing to trust the disk image.
> Especially for the normal usage model of erofs, where the whole disk
> image is verfied before it is allowed to be mounted as part of the boot
> process.

For normal use I see no problem at all.
I fear distros that try to mount anything you plug into your USB.

At least SUSE already blacklists erofs:
https://github.com/openSUSE/suse-module-tools/blob/master/suse-module-tools.spec#L24

Thanks,
//richard