linux-ext4 - Re: [Lsf-pc] [LSF TOPIC] online repair of filesystems: what next?

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Date:   Wed, 19 Apr 2023 04:34:21 +0100
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>
Cc:     "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...nel.org>,
        lsf-pc@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        xfs <linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [Lsf-pc] [LSF TOPIC] online repair of filesystems: what next?

On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 10:46:32AM +0300, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 7:46 AM Darrick J. Wong <djwong@...nel.org> wrote:
> > TBH, most of my fs complaints these days are managerial problems (Are we
> > spending too much time on LTS?  How on earth do we prioritize projects
> > with all these drive by bots??  Why can't we support large engineering
> > efforts better???) than technical.
> 
> I penciled one session for "FS stable backporting (and other LTS woes)".
> I made it a cross FS/IO session so we can have this session in the big room
> and you are welcome to pull this discussion to any direction you want.

Would this make sense to include the MM folks as well?  Certainly MM
has made the same choice as XFS ("No automatic backports, we will cc:
stable on patches that make sense").