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

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Date:   Mon, 19 Aug 2019 02:31:05 +0800
From:   Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@....com>
To:     Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
Cc:     tytso <tytso@....edu>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>,
        Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        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>,
        torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        David Sterba <dsterba@...e.cz>, Pavel Machek <pavel@...x.de>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-erofs <linux-erofs@...ts.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] erofs: move erofs out of staging

Hi Richard,

On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 08:00:28PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> ----- Ursprüngliche Mail -----
> > Von: "tytso" <tytso@....edu>
> > An: "richard" <richard@....at>
> > CC: "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, "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>,
> > "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>
> > Gesendet: Sonntag, 18. August 2019 19:46:21
> > Betreff: Re: [PATCH] erofs: move erofs out of staging
>
> > On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 07:06:40PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> >> > So holding a file system like EROFS to a higher standard than say,
> >> > ext4, xfs, or btrfs hardly seems fair.
> >>
> >> Nobody claimed that.
> >
> > Pointing out that erofs has issues in this area when Gao Xiang is
> > asking if erofs can be moved out of staging and join the "official
> > clubhouse" of file systems could certainly be reasonable interpreted
> > as such.  Reporting such vulnerablities are a good thing, and
> > hopefully all file system maintainers will welcome them.  Doing them
> > on a e-mail thread about promoting out of erofs is certainly going to
> > lead to inferences of a double standard.
>
> Well, this was not at all my intention.
> erofs raised my attention and instead of wasting a new thread
> I answered here and reported what I found while looking at it.
> That's all.

Thank you very much, EROFS finally has some real concern
after a quite long time. I will do that but I really want
to upstream for 5.4LTS and hope to get your further report.

Thanks,
Gao Xiang

>
> Thanks,
> //richard