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Thu, 30 Oct 2025 08:38:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.14] ([38.175.187.108]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 8926c6da1cb9f-5aea995d179sm6740700173.47.2025.10.30.08.38.09 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 30 Oct 2025 08:38:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <67f93be1-b5f3-4945-8701-8e86d61bafca@linuxfoundation.org> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2025 09:38:07 -0600 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add error handling to minix filesystem similar to ext4 To: Jori Koolstra , Jeff Layton , Jan Kara Cc: Christian Brauner , Khalid Aziz , Tetsuo Handa , Taotao Chen , NeilBrown , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, syzbot+4e49728ec1cbaf3b91d2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com, Shuah Khan References: <20251028205857.386719-1-jkoolstra@xs4all.nl> <792975039.3142581.1761826973320@kpc.webmail.kpnmail.nl> <1697efab0661c4c80831544f84c9e520f33962e7.camel@kernel.org> <1979215152.3123282.1761831106100@kpc.webmail.kpnmail.nl> Content-Language: en-US From: Shuah Khan In-Reply-To: <1979215152.3123282.1761831106100@kpc.webmail.kpnmail.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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