Re: [PATCH] erofs: move erofs out of staging

From: Richard Weinberger
Date: Sun Aug 18 2019 - 14:00:37 EST


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> 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.

Thanks,
//richard