Re: [PATCH] common: add scoutfs support.

[Auke Kok <auke.kok@versity.com>]

On 6/29/25 10:38 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> xfstests is only really intended to test in-tree file systems, or at
> least those submitted upstream for inclusion and still in-progress.

I hear you. I don't think this will ever happen.

We've been using xfstests to test scoutfs for many years and rely 
heavily on it, running it practically non-stop on scoutfs in our own CI 
infrastructure, so I thought I'd at least test the waters as I'm in the 
process of updating our local copy of it.

It's entirely likely we'll be maintaining scoutfs for a very long time 
given our main users are deploying large scale archives with it that 
have extensive lifetime spans.

Either way it's no big issue for me/us - this patch is rather small and 
trivial. I do personally prefer to push things upstream once in a while 
to see what feedback comes back, hence this post.

Auke