linux-kernel - Re: Volunteering for BeFS maintainership

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Message-ID: <20160727030551.GD9284@thunk.org>
Date:	Tue, 26 Jul 2016 23:05:51 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Luis de Bethencourt <luisbg@....samsung.com>
Cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
	Salah Triki <salah.triki@....org>,
	Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Volunteering for BeFS maintainership

On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 09:30:13PM +0100, Luis de Bethencourt wrote:
> > 
> > Sounds great!  Do you have a git tree set up for your befs development?
> 
> Yes, I have the following in github (if that is OK):
> https://github.com/luisbg/linux-befs
> 
> I have two branches there based on Linus' master:
>  - befs-linus: with patches Andrew Morton has approved
>  - befs-next: with patches I've tested but that remain under review

So it sounds like you plan to send patches through Andrew's tree.
That works fine, although if you end up sending a larger number of
patches through the linux-mm tree, it might make sense for you to send
patches to Linus directly.  So if you have a chance to get a GPG key
which is signed by people in the Kernel keyring, that would be a good
preparation for that eventuality.  That will require face-to-face
verification of your identity by people who are already in the GPG web
of trust, so it's good to plan for that in advance.

> It would be amazing to have a framework to run xfstests in a GCE VM.

Please see:

       https://thunk.org/gce-xfstests

and

	https://github.com/tytso/xfstests-bld/blob/master/README.md

for more information.

I plan to do some work to make it simpler to get started using
gce-xfstests.  (Specifically, so you don't have to build the tree and
generate your own GCE image, but instead using a premade one.)

Are there userspace tools available to create and consistency check
BeFS file systems?  If so, I can try to get those included into the
test appliance image.  (Better yet, if you can arrange to have someone
create a debian package for BeFStools, that would be great.)

						- Ted