From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.3 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90F29C4741F for ; Sat, 31 Oct 2020 08:51:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57FFB2076E for ; Sat, 31 Oct 2020 08:51:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726436AbgJaIvr (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Oct 2020 04:51:47 -0400 Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.211]:56346 "EHLO verein.lst.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726355AbgJaIvr (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Oct 2020 04:51:47 -0400 Received: by verein.lst.de (Postfix, from userid 2407) id E7C4267373; Sat, 31 Oct 2020 09:51:42 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2020 09:51:42 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Pali =?iso-8859-1?Q?Roh=E1r?= Cc: Konstantin Komarov , Christoph Hellwig , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dsterba@suse.cz, aaptel@suse.com, willy@infradead.org, rdunlap@infradead.org, joe@perches.com, mark@harmstone.com, nborisov@suse.com, linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net, anton@tuxera.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 00/10] NTFS read-write driver GPL implementation by Paragon Software Message-ID: <20201031085142.GA5949@lst.de> References: <20201030150239.3957156-1-almaz.alexandrovich@paragon-software.com> <20201030164122.vuao3avogggnk42q@pali> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20201030164122.vuao3avogggnk42q@pali> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 05:41:22PM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote: > I would like to open discussion about two ntfs kernel drivers. Do we > really need two drivers (one read only - current version and one > read/write - this new version)? > > What other people think? > > I remember that Christoph (added to loop) had in past a good argument > about old staging exfat driver (it had support also for fat32/vfat), > that it would cause problems if two filesystem drivers would provide > support for same filesystem. Yes, we really should not have two drivers normally. I think Konstantin and Anton need to have a chat on how to go forard. Without knowing the details read-write support sounds like a killer feature we'd really want if there aren't any code quality or other feature regression problems, but I haven't had a chance to look at the code at all yet.