From: Sergei Antonov <saproj@gmail.com>
To: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
stable@vger.kernel.org, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Vyacheslav Dubeyko <slava@dubeyko.com>,
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6 to 4.0] hfsplus: fix B-tree corruption after insertion at position 0
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 03:06:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABikg9zrK+jj01MBPmEX9yDyw3iZ5cGSOn+uLorFmoPGAsdsGg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1426786824.70252.YahooMailBasic@web172303.mail.ir2.yahoo.com>
On 19 March 2015 at 18:40, Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>>> Also, the logic of hfs_brec_insert() in the plain hfs (without +) driver in
>>> fs/hfs/brec.c is essentially the same, so I believe there is the need of another
>>> similiar patch for that also. Can you provide that also?
>>
>>No. The original HFS is very old. The only reasonable purpose of its
>>implementation in Linux IMO is to read data from old disks. Read-only
>>mode that is.
>
> I don't think it is right to dictate how users should use their linux box.
> On the whole we should only stop fixing bugs if we are going
> to deprecate hfs (and subsequently remove it). Also, there is some value
> in keeping two file systems which are code-wise very similar in sync.
>
> If you cannot find the time, but otherwise have no objection, I'd be happy to
> spend the time to prepare the patch, and add your signed-off on it?
Of course, I have no objections. But, please, do not add me in
signed-off-by. Because signed-off-by implies some responsibility, and
I do not want to have one for hfs.
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2015-03-26 2:06 ` Sergei Antonov [this message]
2015-06-08 13:30 ` [PATCH 2.6 to 4.0] hfsplus: fix B-tree corruption after insertion at position 0 Sergei Antonov
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2015-03-18 23:05 ` Sergei Antonov
2015-03-17 2:10 Sergei Antonov
2015-03-17 16:50 ` Viacheslav Dubeyko
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