RE: [RFC] Why generic/073 is generic but not btrfs specific?

[Viacheslav Dubeyko <Slava.Dubeyko@ibm.com>]

On Sat, 2025-11-08 at 09:01 -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 06, 2025 at 10:29:46PM +0000, Viacheslav Dubeyko wrote:
> > > > Technically speaking, HFS+ is journaling file system in Apple implementation.
> > > > But we don't have this functionality implemented and fully supported on Linux
> > > > kernel side. Potentially, it can be done but currently we haven't such
> > > > functionality yet. So, HFS/HFS+ doesn't use journaling on Linux kernel side  and
> > > > no journal replay could happen. :)
> 
> If the implementation of HJFJS+ in Linux doesn't support metadata
> consistency after a crash, I'd suggest adding HFS+ to
> _has_metadat_journalling().  This will suppress a number of test
> failures so you can focus on other issues which arguably is probably
> higher priority for you to fix.
> 
> After you get HFS+ to run clean with the journalling tesets skipped,
> then you can focus on adding that guarantee at that point, perhaps?
> 
> 

Yes, it makes sense. It's really good strategy. But I've decided to spend couple
of days on the fix of this issue. If I am not lucky to find the quick fix, then
I'll follow this strategy. :)

Thanks,
Slava.