Thread (22 messages) 22 messages, 10 authors, 2019-09-26

Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] add RWF_ENCODED for writing compressed data

From: Colin Walters <hidden>
Date: 2019-09-26 12:18:23
Also in: linux-btrfs, linux-fsdevel


On Wed, Sep 25, 2019, at 10:56 AM, Chris Mason wrote:
The data is verified while being decompressed, but that's a fairly large 
fuzzing surface (all of zstd, zlib, and lzo).  A lot of people will 
correctly argue that we already have that fuzzing surface today, but I'd 
rather not make a really easy way to stuff arbitrary bytes through the 
kernel decompression code until all the projects involved sign off.
Right.  So maybe have this start of as a BTRFS ioctl and require
privileges?   I assume that's sufficient for what Omar wants.

(Are there actually any other popular Linux filesystems that do transparent compression anyways?)
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