diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 858c3a81d063..13f360c15d5e 100755 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -12708,6 +12708,13 @@ M: H Hartley Sweeten S: Odd Fixes F: drivers/staging/comedi/ +STAGING - EROFS FILE SYSTEM +M: Gao Xiang +M: Chao Yu +L: linux-erofs@lists.ozlabs.org +S: Maintained +F: drivers/staging/erofs/ + STAGING - FLARION FT1000 DRIVERS M: Marek Belisko S: Odd Fixes diff --git a/drivers/staging/erofs/TODO b/drivers/staging/erofs/TODO new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..f99ddb842f99 --- /dev/null +++ b/drivers/staging/erofs/TODO @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ + +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 + Gao Xiang + Chao Yu + +Cc: (for linux-kernel upstream patches) + Greg Kroah-Hartman + linux-staging mailing list +