From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755456Ab1I2B1D (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Sep 2011 21:27:03 -0400 Received: from Mycroft.westnet.com ([216.187.52.7]:38327 "EHLO mycroft.westnet.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751204Ab1I2B1C (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Sep 2011 21:27:02 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1137 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2011 21:27:02 EDT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <20099.50407.346360.216442@quad.stoffel.home> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 21:07:51 -0400 From: "John Stoffel" To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: Will Drewry , Mandeep Singh Baines , Alasdair G Kergon , Milan Broz , dm-devel@redhat.com, Elly Jones , Olof Johansson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] dm: verity target In-Reply-To: <21505.1317245414@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> References: <1316112359-6085-1-git-send-email-msb@chromium.org> <21505.1317245414@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: VM 8.1.1 under 23.2.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "Valdis" == Valdis Kletnieks writes: Valdis> On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:02:05 CDT, Will Drewry said: >> I was just curious if there is any interest in pulling this change, or >> if not, if there is any particular set of concerns, fixes, etc. Valdis> Out of curiosity, how much of the stack does this end up eating? My root Valdis> filesystem is already ext4 on an LVM partition that's on a LUKS/dm-crypt Valdis> partition on a hard drive, and I'm sure somebody out there will have used xfs Valdis> instead - and then exported it via NFS or something. Are we going to get weird Valdis> stack overflows if people throw dm-verity into this sort of mix? >> realize it's not a small amount of code to digest (though it is >> smaller than the post from last year[1]). Would re-posting with an >> added blob explaining the name be useful, Valdis> Probably will need it to be merged, unless you set up an Valdis> auto-reply that says "Patch rejected, 'verity' is *not* a typo Valdis> for 'verify'" ;) God, I've been reading this as veriFy all along. I think your name stinks because it's too close to Verify, and too obscure otherwise. John