On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 01:08:04PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > On Wed 24-10-18 09:43:21, Amir Goldstein wrote: > > Once all comments are addressed and assuming no objections, you have > > two possible ways forward: > > > > 1. Wait for VFS maintainer to take the common code and patches ACKed > > by individual maintainers (Al practically maintains some of the small fs > > himself). Al's backlog is long, so this may be a long wait. > > > > 2. Ask a filesystem maintainer to carry the common patch along with his > > specific fs patch through his tree and let other maintainers apply the patch > > at their own will on the following development cycle. > > The ext2 tree would be a good candidate for such a move, if Jan accepts > > this change, considering that all other fs copied the buggy code from ext2. > > I can take these patches through my tree if Al takes too long to respond > (but he apparently already had a look at the patches which is a good sign > ;) and if patches are reviewed by respective fs maintainers. > > Honza > > -- > Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> > SUSE Labs, CR Dear Jan, Thank you - and thank you Al as well for taking a look :-) I will publish a new series later on (possibly tomorrow) with all the feedback I've gathered. Regards, Phil
