Re: [PATCH] Add error handling to minix filesystem similar to ext4

[Jan Kara]

On Thu 30-10-25 20:18:07, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> On 2025/10/30 19:59, Jan Kara wrote:
> > The patch looks ok to me but since minix filesystem driver is in the kernel
> > mostly to allow mounting ancient unix filesystems I don't quite understand
> > the motivation for adding the new mount options. Why not just fixup
> > minix_rmdir() to better handle corrupted filesystems?
> I guess that a filesystem which is not needed from boot time can be
> implemented in userspace. Can't we migrate legacy filesystems to
> fuse-based userspace implementations?

I didn't research availability / usability of a FUSE driver for minix but
if there's working userspace alternative, deprecating the kernel driver is
certainly a welcome option :).

								Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
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