Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 26 Mar 2016 16:55:35 -0400 | From | Theodore Ts'o <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] f2fs updates for v4.6 |
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On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 01:48:23PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > BTW, as far as switching ext4 to use the shared code in fs/crypto --- > > I'm hoping to get that done for the next merge window. There are a 2 > > or 3 patches to fix some recently discovered bugs that I'll need to > > push into the fs/crypto code, but I'll take care of that for the next > > development cycle. > > No worries. Considering this mistake (which happily seems to have an > innocent explanation for it) it would be good to have it verified that > the shared code does actually work for you, so that we don't end up in > the unhappy situation that the code got split up in order to be > shared, but some random detail choice then made it not actually work > for ext4 after all..
Oh, for sure. One of the things I plan to do is to make sure that a file system created using the *current* ext4 encryption code is properly readable using the new fs/crypto code. I'll also run a full regression test run using xfstests as well.
That's one of the reasons why I wasn't going to even try to get it done for this merge window (even if you weren't going to be closing the merge window tomorrow). I just didn't have the time to do a good job, and it made sense to let the f2fs code go in first, and then convert ext4 afterwards.
- Ted
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