From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/12] fs-verity: add a documentation file Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 23:19:14 -0800 Message-ID: <20181219071914.GA18852@infradead.org> References: <20181101225230.88058-1-ebiggers@kernel.org> <20181101225230.88058-2-ebiggers@kernel.org> <20181212091406.GA31723@infradead.org> <20181212202609.GA193967@gmail.com> <20181213202249.GA3797@infradead.org> <20181214044802.GA681@sol.localdomain> <20181217200039.GD8111@magnolia> <20181219071149.GB2628@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Christoph Hellwig , "Darrick J. Wong" , ebiggers@kernel.org, linux-fscrypt@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Theodore Y . Ts'o" , Jaegeuk Kim , Victor Hsieh , Chandan Rajendra List-Id: linux-f2fs-devel.lists.sourceforge.net On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 11:16:08PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, Dec 18, 2018, 23:11 Christoph Hellwig > > > > I think the fd would have to be on the same fs for this interface to > > make sense. But it could be an O_TMPFILE one. And given that ext4 > > already supports a variant of swapext this interface should also work > > with the existing ext4 on disk format. > > > > Why is the merkle tree not just an xattr of the file? Because it is too large for our awkward xattrs interface..