RE: [PATCH] fs: NTFS read-write driver GPL implementation by Paragon Software.

[Konstantin Komarov <almaz.alexandrovich@paragon-software.com>]

From: Aurélien Aptel <aaptel@suse.com>
Sent: Friday, August 14, 2020 5:09 PM
> 
> Hi Konstantin,
> 
> That's cool :) As Nikolay said it needs a little change to the makefiles
> to even build.
> 
> Are you also going to publish your own mkfs.ntfs3 tool? I dont think the
> existing one would support 64k clusters.

Hi Aurélien. Thanks for your feedback. We plan to publish our mkfs.ntfs utility as the open source as well (and possibly fschk.ntfs - after mkfs). 

> 
> I would recommend to run checkpatch (I see already 87 warnings... some
> of it is noise):
> 
>   $ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl <patch>
> 
> And sparse (I dont see much):
> 
>   $ touch fs/ntfs3/*.[ch] && make C=1
> 
> You need a recent build of sparse to do that last one. You can pass your
> own sparse bin (make CHECK=~/prog/sparse/sparse C=1)
> 
> This will be a good first step.

The sparse utility is running against the code, as well as checkpatch.pl. Sprase output is clean now. Checkpatch's somehow important warnings will be fixed in v2 (except maybe typedefs). 

> 
> Have you tried to run the xfstests suite against it?
>
xfstests are being one of our standard test suites among others. Currently we have the 'generic/339' and 'generic/013' test cases failing, working on it now. Other tests either pass or being skipped (due to missing features e.g. reflink). 
 
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