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

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Date:   Tue, 20 Aug 2019 20:51:04 -0400
From:   "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@....com>
Cc:     Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>, Qu Wenruo <quwenruo.btrfs@....com>,
        "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, 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>,
        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>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] erofs: move erofs out of staging

On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 12:35:08AM +0800, Gao Xiang wrote:
> 
> For EROFS, it's a special case since it is a RO fs, and erofs mkfs
> will generate reproducable images (which means, for one dir trees,
> it only generates exact one result except for build time).

Agreed, and given that, doing the fuzzing in your mkfs tool makes
perfect sense.  I wasn't surprised at all that you chose that path.

Cheers,

						- Ted