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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>,
	Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>,
	linux-fscrypt@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>,
	Victor Hsieh <victorhsieh@google.com>,
	Chandan Rajendra <chandan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/12] fs-verity: add a documentation file
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2018 23:04:47 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181221070447.GA21687@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181220220158.GC2360@mit.edu>

On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 05:01:58PM -0500, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> That's simply not true.  Number one, fsverity is not mandatory for all
> file systems to implement.  If XFS doesn't want to implement fscrypt
> or fsverity, it doesn't have to.  Number two, we're not *making* any
> changes to the kernel code; nothing in mm/filemap.c, et. al.  So
> saying that we are making changes that are impacted by /everyone/ just
> doesn't make any sense.

Ted, I think you know yourself this isn't true.  Whenever we added
useful interface to one of the major file systems we had other pick
it up, and that is a good thing because the last thing we need is
fragmentation of interfaces.  And even if that wasn't the case I don't
think we should take short cuts, because even if an interface was just
for a file system or two it still needs to be properly desgined.

There is no reason to rush interfacs in, because everytime we have done
that it has turned out to be a very bad idea in retrospective.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-21  7:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-01 22:52 [PATCH v2 00/12] fs-verity: read-only file-based authenticity protection Eric Biggers
2018-11-01 22:52 ` [PATCH v2 01/12] fs-verity: add a documentation file Eric Biggers
2018-12-12  9:14   ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-12 20:26     ` Eric Biggers
2018-12-13 20:22       ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-14  4:48         ` Eric Biggers
2018-12-17 16:49           ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-17 18:32             ` Eric Biggers
2018-12-19  7:09               ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-17 20:00           ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-12-19  0:16             ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-12-19  2:19               ` Dave Chinner
2018-12-19 19:30                 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-12-19 21:35                   ` Dave Chinner
2018-12-20 22:01                     ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-12-21  7:04                       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2018-12-21 10:06                         ` Richard Weinberger
2018-12-21 15:47                         ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-12-21 15:53                           ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-12-21 16:28                             ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-12-21 16:34                               ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-12-21 19:13                           ` Linus Torvalds
2018-12-22  4:17                             ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-12-22 22:47                               ` Linus Torvalds
2018-12-23  4:34                                 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-12-23  4:10                               ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-12-23  4:45                                 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-01-04 20:41                                   ` Daniel Colascione
2018-12-19  7:14               ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-19  7:11             ` Christoph Hellwig
     [not found]               ` <CAHk-=wiB8vGbje+NgNkMZupHsZ_cqg6YEBV+ZXSF4wnywFLRHQ@mail.gmail.com>
2018-12-19  7:19                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-14  5:17         ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-12-14  5:39           ` Eric Biggers
2018-12-17 16:52           ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-17 19:15             ` Eric Biggers
2018-12-21 16:11   ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-11-01 22:52 ` [PATCH v2 02/12] fs-verity: add setup code, UAPI, and Kconfig Eric Biggers
2018-11-01 22:52 ` [PATCH v2 03/12] fs-verity: add MAINTAINERS file entry Eric Biggers
2018-11-01 22:52 ` [PATCH v2 04/12] fs-verity: add data verification hooks for ->readpages() Eric Biggers
2018-11-01 22:52 ` [PATCH v2 05/12] fs-verity: implement FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY ioctl Eric Biggers
2018-11-01 22:52 ` [PATCH v2 06/12] fs-verity: implement FS_IOC_MEASURE_VERITY ioctl Eric Biggers
2018-11-01 22:52 ` [PATCH v2 07/12] fs-verity: add SHA-512 support Eric Biggers
2018-11-01 22:52 ` [PATCH v2 08/12] fs-verity: add CRC-32C support Eric Biggers
2018-11-01 22:52 ` [PATCH v2 09/12] fs-verity: support builtin file signatures Eric Biggers
2018-11-01 22:52 ` [PATCH v2 10/12] ext4: add basic fs-verity support Eric Biggers
2018-11-02  9:43   ` Chandan Rajendra
2018-11-06  1:25     ` Eric Biggers
2018-11-06  6:52       ` Chandan Rajendra
2018-11-05 21:05   ` Andreas Dilger
2018-11-06  1:11     ` Eric Biggers
2018-11-01 22:52 ` [PATCH v2 11/12] ext4: add fs-verity read support Eric Biggers
2018-11-01 22:52 ` [PATCH v2 12/12] f2fs: fs-verity support Eric Biggers

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