Re: [PATCH v4 00/46] btrfs: add fscrypt support

Eric Biggers
2024-04-09T23:42:25Z

Hi Josef and Sweet Tea,

On Fri, Dec 01, 2023 at 05:10:57PM -0500, Josef Bacik wrote:
> Hello,
>
> v3 can be found here
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/cover.1697480198.git.josef@toxicpanda.com/
>
> There's been a longer delay between versions than I'd like, this was mostly due
> to Plumbers, Holidays, and then uncovering a bunch of new issues with '-o
> test_dummy_encryption'. I'm still working through some of the btrfs specific
> failures, but the fscrypt side appears to be stable. I had to add a few changes
> to fscrypt since the last time, but nothing earth shattering, just moving the
> keyring destruction and adding a helper we need for btrfs send to work properly.
>
> This is passing a good chunk of the fstests, at this point the majority appear
> to be cases where I need to exclude the test when using test_dummy_encryption
> because of various limitations of our tools or other infrastructure related
> things.
>
> I likely will have a follow-up series with more fixes, but the bulk of this is
> unchanged since the last posting. There were some bug fixes and such but the
> overall design remains the same. Thanks,
>

Is there a plan for someone to keep working on this? I think it was finally
getting somewhere, but the work on it seems to have stopped.

Thanks,

- Eric