From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from imap.thunk.org ([74.207.234.97]:47158 "EHLO imap.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753958AbcG0DGA (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jul 2016 23:06:00 -0400 Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 23:05:51 -0400 From: Theodore Ts'o To: Luis de Bethencourt Cc: Greg KH , Linux Kernel , Andrew Morton , Al Viro , Salah Triki , Javier Martinez Canillas , Richard Weinberger , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Volunteering for BeFS maintainership Message-ID: <20160727030551.GD9284@thunk.org> References: <57964A8F.2010104@osg.samsung.com> <20160725212331.GB32464@kroah.com> <57969DC8.5090008@osg.samsung.com> <20160726175656.GC9284@thunk.org> <5797C855.8090005@osg.samsung.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5797C855.8090005@osg.samsung.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 09:30:13PM +0100, Luis de Bethencourt wrote: > > > > Sounds great! Do you have a git tree set up for your befs development? > > Yes, I have the following in github (if that is OK): > https://github.com/luisbg/linux-befs > > I have two branches there based on Linus' master: > - befs-linus: with patches Andrew Morton has approved > - befs-next: with patches I've tested but that remain under review So it sounds like you plan to send patches through Andrew's tree. That works fine, although if you end up sending a larger number of patches through the linux-mm tree, it might make sense for you to send patches to Linus directly. So if you have a chance to get a GPG key which is signed by people in the Kernel keyring, that would be a good preparation for that eventuality. That will require face-to-face verification of your identity by people who are already in the GPG web of trust, so it's good to plan for that in advance. > It would be amazing to have a framework to run xfstests in a GCE VM. Please see: https://thunk.org/gce-xfstests and https://github.com/tytso/xfstests-bld/blob/master/README.md for more information. I plan to do some work to make it simpler to get started using gce-xfstests. (Specifically, so you don't have to build the tree and generate your own GCE image, but instead using a premade one.) Are there userspace tools available to create and consistency check BeFS file systems? If so, I can try to get those included into the test appliance image. (Better yet, if you can arrange to have someone create a debian package for BeFStools, that would be great.) - Ted