Re: Merging virtualbox shared-folder VFS driver through drivers/staging?

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On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 12:43:48AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 09:40:05AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > Since I do not see the lack of reviewing capacity problem get solved
> > > anytime soon, I was wondering if you are ok with putting the code
> > > in drivers/staging/vboxsf for now, until someone can review it and ack it
> > > for moving over to sf/vboxsf ?
> > 
> > I have no objection to that if the vfs developers do not mind.
> 
> We had really bad experiences with fs code in staging.  I think it is
> a bad idea that should not be repeated.

Lustre was a mistake.  erofs is better in that there are active
developers working to get it out of staging.  We would also need that
here for this to be successful.

Hans, is it just review that is keeping this from being merged or is
there "real work" that has to be done?

thanks,

greg k-h



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