Re: Volunteering for BeFS maintainership

From	Luis de Bethencourt <luisbg@osg.samsung.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: Volunteering for BeFS maintainership
Date	2016-07-27 16:50 +0200
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On 27/07/16 14:23, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 12:45:36PM +0100, Luis de Bethencourt wrote:
>> Support for BeFS in Linux is read-only. So there are no tools to create
>> BeFS file systems. I have a bunch of BeFS images created from Haiku OS
>> that cover most things.
> 
> Ah, well, pretty much all of the xfstests assume the ability to write
> into the file system.  So it may be a while before using xfstests will
> make sense for BeFS.
> 
>> There is no reason a consistency check tool can't be written. I think this
>> could be a fun exercise, I am tempted to add it to my task list :)
>> However this tool can only inform if the file system is consistent, and not
>> really fix it.  Similar to "e2fsck -n".
> 
> That's all which is necessary for xfstests --- the idea is that the
> test will make various changes to the file system, and then
> correctness is checked both by whether the expected output is printed
> as the test probes changed the file system state, and by the
> consistency checker confirming that the file system is in a consistent
> sane state after each test completes.
> 

Right. It will still be valuable for me to run xfstests for ext4 and btrfs.

Thanks for the advice.

>> Salah told me he is planning to slowly work on adding read support in the
>> future. But don't want to make any promises/plans on his behalf.
> 
> I assume you mean write support in the above paragraph.  :-)
> 

You assume correctly :) Sorry for the typo.

> Cheers,
> 
> 						- Ted
> 

Thanks,
Luis

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Re: Volunteering for BeFS maintainership Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-07-26 00:10 +0200
  Re: Volunteering for BeFS maintainership Luis de Bethencourt <luisbg@osg.samsung.com> - 2016-07-26 01:20 +0200
    Re: Volunteering for BeFS maintainership Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> - 2016-07-26 20:00 +0200
      Re: Volunteering for BeFS maintainership Luis de Bethencourt <luisbg@osg.samsung.com> - 2016-07-26 22:40 +0200
        Re: Volunteering for BeFS maintainership Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> - 2016-07-27 05:10 +0200
          Re: Volunteering for BeFS maintainership Luis de Bethencourt <luisbg@osg.samsung.com> - 2016-07-27 13:50 +0200
            Re: Volunteering for BeFS maintainership Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> - 2016-07-27 15:30 +0200
              Re: Volunteering for BeFS maintainership Luis de Bethencourt <luisbg@osg.samsung.com> - 2016-07-27 16:50 +0200
      Re: Volunteering for BeFS maintainership Salah Triki <salah.triki@gmail.com> - 2016-07-27 04:10 +0200
  Re: Volunteering for BeFS maintainership Salah Triki <salah.triki@gmail.com> - 2016-07-27 02:00 +0200

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