Re: [PATCH v2 01/12] fs-verity: add a documentation file

Eric Biggers
2018-12-14T05:39:10Z

On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 12:17:22AM -0500, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> Furthermore, it would require extra complexity in the common fsverity code
> --- which looks for the Merkle tree at the end of file data --- for no real
> benefit.

To clarify, while this is technically true currently, as I mentioned it's been
kept flexible enough such that a filesystem *could* store the metadata elsewhere
with only some slight changes to the common fs/verity/ code which won't break
other filesystems. Though of course, keeping all filesystems using the
"metadata after EOF" approach does allow a couple simplifications.

- Eric