Re: moving affs + RDB partition support to staging?

Al Viro
2018-05-06T01:00:25Z

On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 12:45:41PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:

> Exactly. It works fine as is:
>
> root@elgar:~> uname -a
> Linux elgar 4.16.0-rc2-amiga-16784-ga8917fc #650 Mon Mar 5 15:32:52 NZDT 2018 m68k GNU/Linux
> root@elgar:~> mount /dev/sda1 /mnt -taffs
> root@elgar:~> ls -l /mnt | head
> total 0
> drwx------ 1 root root 0 Mar 30 2001 Alt
> -rw------- 1 root root 1352 Mar 27 1997 Alt.info
> drwx------ 1 root root 0 Nov 16 14:39 C
> drwx------ 1 root root 0 Mar 27 1997 CS_Fonts
> drwx------ 1 root root 0 Mar 27 1997 Classes
> -rwx------ 1 root root 1132 Aug 14 1996 Classes.info
> drwx------ 1 root root 0 Feb 10 2004 Commodities
> -rw------- 1 root root 628 Jan 14 2002 Commodities.info
> drwx------ 1 root root 0 Apr 10 1999 CyberTools
> root@elgar:~> mount |grep affs
> /dev/sda1 on /mnt type affs (rw,relatime,bs=512,volume=:)
> root@elgar:~>
>
> There is nothing at the moment that needs fixing.

Funny, that... I'd been going through the damn thing for the
last week or so; open-by-fhandle/nfs export support is completely
buggered. And as for the rest... the least said about the error
handling, the better - something like rename() hitting an IO
error (read one) can not only screw the on-disk data into the
ground, it can do seriously bad things to kernel data structures.

Is there anything resembling fsck for that thing, BTW? Nevermind
the repairs, just the validity checks would be nice...