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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] xfstests: add fs-verity tests
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On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 02:21:35PM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
> Add tests for fs-verity, a new feature for read-only file-based
> authenticity protection.  fs-verity will be supported by ext4 and f2fs,
> and perhaps other filesystems later.  Running these tests requires:

Seriously, given how broken the current fs-verify support is we should
neither merge it into the kernel nor fstests.

Nothing against the highlevel feature per-se, but the implementation
posted to linux-fsdevel a while ago is simply too broken.