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

[Gao Xiang]

Hi Richard,

On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 08:00:28PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> ----- Ursprüngliche Mail -----
> > Von: "tytso" <tytso@xxxxxxx>
> > An: "richard" <richard@xxxxxx>
> > CC: "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Gao Xiang" <hsiangkao@xxxxxxx>, "Jan Kara" <jack@xxxxxxx>, "Chao
> > Yu" <yuchao0@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Dave Chinner" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "David Sterba" <dsterba@xxxxxxx>, "Miao Xie"
> > <miaoxie@xxxxxxxxxx>, "devel" <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Stephen Rothwell" <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Darrick"
> > <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Christoph Hellwig" <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Amir Goldstein" <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx>,
> > "linux-erofs" <linux-erofs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Al Viro" <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Jaegeuk Kim" <jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx>,
> > "linux-kernel" <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Li Guifu" <bluce.liguifu@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Fang Wei" <fangwei1@xxxxxxxxxx>,
> > "Pavel Machek" <pavel@xxxxxxx>, "linux-fsdevel" <linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Andrew Morton"
> > <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "torvalds" <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 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