From: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl>,
Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
Khalid Aziz <khalid@kernel.org>,
Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>,
Taotao Chen <chentaotao@didiglobal.com>,
NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
syzbot+4e49728ec1cbaf3b91d2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com,
Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add error handling to minix filesystem similar to ext4
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2025 09:38:07 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <67f93be1-b5f3-4945-8701-8e86d61bafca@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1979215152.3123282.1761831106100@kpc.webmail.kpnmail.nl>
On 10/30/25 07:31, Jori Koolstra wrote:
>> Not necessarily.
>>
>> I'm not sure if your internship covers this, but you could start a
>> project to build a minixfs FUSE fs (if one doesn't already exist). If
>> you get it working and stable, you can then submit patches to deprecate
>> and remove it from the kernel.
>
>
> I would have to ask Shuah but am open to it. But a quick search turns up
> this: https://github.com/redcap97/fuse-mfs . I would have to see if it
> actually works and it does not seem to support v1, v2 of minix fs either.
> There might also be a licensing issue.
No objections from me. I was expecting we might end up here based on
initial reactions to syzbot fix. Since you are interested in fs, this
work you did for this patch is a good learning opportunity which will
stay with you.
thanks,
-- Shuah
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-10-30 15:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-28 20:58 Jori Koolstra
2025-10-30 10:59 ` Jan Kara
2025-10-30 11:18 ` Tetsuo Handa
2025-10-30 11:35 ` Jan Kara
2025-10-30 12:22 ` Jori Koolstra
2025-10-30 12:59 ` Jeff Layton
2025-10-30 13:31 ` Jori Koolstra
2025-10-30 13:43 ` Jeff Layton
2025-10-30 14:09 ` Jori Koolstra
2025-10-30 15:12 ` Jeff Layton
2025-10-30 15:44 ` Shuah Khan
2025-10-30 17:12 ` Jan Kara
2025-10-30 17:40 ` Jeff Layton
2025-10-30 17:18 ` Jan Kara
2025-10-30 23:42 ` Jori Koolstra
2025-10-30 17:22 ` Jan Kara
2025-10-30 18:00 ` Jeff Layton
2025-10-30 15:38 ` Shuah Khan [this message]
2025-10-30 17:01 ` Jan Kara
2025-10-30 23:16 ` Jori Koolstra
2025-10-31 15:38 ` Jan Kara
2025-11-01 20:27 ` kernel test robot
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