Re: [MAINTAINERS/KERNEL SUMMIT] Trust and maintenance of file systems

Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-08T08:39:53Z

On Wed, Sep 06, 2023 at 09:53:27PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Anyway, what about just having read-only be the minimum for supporting a
> file system? We can say "sorry, due to no one maintaining this file system,
> we will no longer allow write access." But I'm guessing that just
> supporting reading an old file system is much easier than modifying one
> (wasn't that what we did with NTFS for the longest time?)

read-only is just as annoying, because all our normal test infrastruture
doesn't work for that at all. So you'd need not only a test harness
for that, but also a lot of publically shared images and/or a tool
to generate filled images.