Re: [PATCH 0/7] xfstests: add fs-verity tests

Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-12-12T03:00:23Z

On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 05:52:31AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.

What do you think is broken?

- Ted