Re: [NOMERGE] [RFC PATCH 00/12] erofs: introduce erofs file system

2018-07-26 Thread Joey Pabalinas
On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 02:55:11PM -1000, Joey Pabalinas wrote: > I thought the exact same thing; opened the thread and was a bit confused > at first. In my opinion the name feels slightly misleading. Oooh, reading more of the thread I see there is some fun wordplay going on which I didn't catch a

Re: [NOMERGE] [RFC PATCH 00/12] erofs: introduce erofs file system

2018-07-26 Thread Joey Pabalinas
On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 11:28:07AM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote: > > We also think of other candidate full names, such as > > Enhanced / Extented Read-only File System, all the names short for "erofs" > > are okay. > > TBH, I read "erofs" as "error fs". ;-) I thought the exact same thing; ope

Re: [NOMERGE] [RFC PATCH 00/12] erofs: introduce erofs file system

2018-06-07 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > >> We also think of other candidate full names, such as > >> Enhanced / Extented Read-only File System, all the names short for "erofs" > >> are okay. > > > > TBH, I read "erofs" as "error fs". ;-) > eh..."erofs" indeed comes from the EROFS error code, that is a playful > behaviour... > I

Re: [NOMERGE] [RFC PATCH 00/12] erofs: introduce erofs file system

2018-06-01 Thread Gao Xiang
On 2018/6/1 17:28, Richard Weinberger wrote: > Am Freitag, 1. Juni 2018, 11:11:21 CEST schrieb Gao Xiang: >>> In which sense is it extendable? >> >> Actually, the meaning of an enhanced (means not just read-only, but with the >> scalable >> on-disk layout, compression, or fs-verify in the futur

Re: [NOMERGE] [RFC PATCH 00/12] erofs: introduce erofs file system

2018-06-01 Thread Richard Weinberger
Am Freitag, 1. Juni 2018, 11:11:21 CEST schrieb Gao Xiang: > > In which sense is it extendable? > > Actually, the meaning of an enhanced (means not just read-only, but with the > scalable > on-disk layout, compression, or fs-verify in the future) read-only file > system is emphasized. ah ok.

Re: [NOMERGE] [RFC PATCH 00/12] erofs: introduce erofs file system

2018-06-01 Thread Gao Xiang
Hi Richard, On 2018/6/1 15:48, Richard Weinberger wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 1:06 PM, Gao Xiang wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Read-only file systems are used in many cases, such as read-only storage >> media. >> We are now focusing on the Android device which several read-only partitions >> exi

Re: [NOMERGE] [RFC PATCH 00/12] erofs: introduce erofs file system

2018-06-01 Thread Richard Weinberger
On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 1:06 PM, Gao Xiang wrote: > Hi all, > > Read-only file systems are used in many cases, such as read-only storage > media. > We are now focusing on the Android device which several read-only partitions > exist. > Due to limited read-only solutions, a new read-only file sys

[NOMERGE] [RFC PATCH 00/12] erofs: introduce erofs file system

2018-05-31 Thread Gao Xiang
Hi all, Read-only file systems are used in many cases, such as read-only storage media. We are now focusing on the Android device which several read-only partitions exist. Due to limited read-only solutions, a new read-only file system EROFS (Extendable Read-Only File System) is introduced. As t