Re: Subject: [RFC PATCH v2 0/8] staging: apfs: init APFS filesystem support

Ernesto A. Fernández
2025-05-21T16:28:05Z

Hi,
just one nitpick:

On Wed, May 21, 2025 at 12:14:53PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> We already carry
> quite a few filesystem drivers used by very few people and since few people
> are interested it them it's difficult to find people to get these drivers
> converted to new mount API, iomap infrastructure, new page cache APIs etc.
> which forces us to keep carring the old interfaces. This gets particularly
> painful for filesystems where we don't have full specification so usually
> the mkfs and fsck tooling is not as comprehensive which makes testing
> changes harder.

For the record, my fsck [1] is far more thorough than the official one, I
don't take data corruption lightly. It's only for testing though, it doesn't
actually fix anything. And of course it could have mistakes since the
specification is incomplete and buggy.

[1] https://github.com/linux-apfs/apfsprogs