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

From: Richard Weinberger
Date: Mon Aug 19 2019 - 03:37:16 EST


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> On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 10:29:38AM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
>> Not sure what you're even disagreeing with, as I *do* expect new filesystems to
>> be held to a high standard, and to be written with the assumption that the
>> on-disk data may be corrupted or malicious. We just can't expect the bar to be
>> so high (e.g. no bugs) that it's never been attained by *any* filesystem even
>> after years/decades of active development. If the developers were careful, the
>> code generally looks robust, and they are willing to address such bugs as they
>> are found, realistically that's as good as we can expect to get...
>
> Well, the impression I got from Richards quick look and the reply to it is
> that there is very little attempt to validate the ondisk data structure
> and there is absolutely no priority to do so. Which is very different
> from there is a bug or two here and there.

On the plus side, everything I reported got fixed within hours.

Thanks,
//richard