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authorGao Xiang <gaoxiang25@huawei.com>2018-07-26 20:22:08 +0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-07-27 17:24:10 +0200
commit27cce7bc2f8154f3a3bebcf7f9923cd22477aef8 (patch)
treea7ca8f7608e31c270ccfc251136406fb78ac61b9 /drivers/staging/erofs
parent105d4ad857dcbf3dc1288f339c5b09dafbc8f923 (diff)
staging: erofs: add a TODO and update MAINTAINERS for staging
This patch adds a TODO to list the things to be done, and the relevant info to MAINTAINERS so we can take all the blame :) Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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+
+EROFS is still working in progress, thus it is not suitable
+for all productive uses. play at your own risk :)
+
+TODO List:
+ - add the missing error handling code
+ (mainly existed in xattr and decompression submodules);
+
+ - finalize erofs ondisk format design (which means that
+ minor on-disk revisions could happen later);
+
+ - documentation and detailed technical analysis;
+
+ - general code review and clean up
+ (including confusing variable names and code snippets);
+
+ - support larger compressed clustersizes for selection
+ (currently erofs only works as expected with the page-sized
+ compressed cluster configuration, usually 4KB);
+
+ - support more lossless data compression algorithms
+ in addition to LZ4 algorithms in VLE approach;
+
+ - data deduplication and other useful features.
+
+erofs-mkfs (preview version) binaries for i386 / x86_64 are available at:
+
+ https://github.com/hsiangkao/erofs_mkfs_binary
+
+It is still in progress opening mkfs source code to public,
+in any case an open-source mkfs will be released in the near future.
+
+
+Code, suggestions, etc, are welcome. Please feel free to
+ask and send patches,
+
+To:
+ linux-erofs mailing list <linux-erofs@lists.ozlabs.org>
+ Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@huawei.com>
+ Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
+
+Cc: (for linux-kernel upstream patches)
+ Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
+ linux-staging mailing list <devel@driverdev.osuosl.org>
+