Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] ovl: Add support for fs-verity checking of lowerdata

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On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 5:54 PM Alexander Larsson <alexl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 1:09 PM Alexander Larsson <alexl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 12:54 PM Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > > On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 1:27 PM Alexander Larsson <alexl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > This patchset adds support for using fs-verity to validate lowerdata
> > > > files by specifying an overlay.verity xattr on the metacopy
> > > > files.
> > > >
> > > > This is primarily motivated by the Composefs usecase, where there will
> > > > be a read-only EROFS layer that contains redirect into a base data
> > > > layer which has fs-verity enabled on all files. However, it is also
> > > > useful in general if you want to ensure that the lowerdata files
> > > > matches the expected content over time.
> > > >
> > > > I have also added some tests for this feature to xfstests[1].
> > >
> > > I can't remember if there is a good reason why your test does
> > > not include verify in a data-only layer.
> > >
> > > I think this test coverage needs to be added.
> >
> > Yeah. I'll add that.
>
> Updated the git branch with some lowerdata tests.

Nice!

Thanks,
Amir.




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