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Date:   Thu, 29 Aug 2019 02:51:16 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To:     Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@huawei.com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: exfat: add exfat filesystem code to staging
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On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 04:24:09PM +0800, Gao Xiang wrote:
> It seems I misunderstood your idea, sorry about that... EROFS
> properly uses vfs interfaces (e.g. we also considered RCU symlink
> lookup path at the very beginning of our design as Al said [1],
> except for mount interface as Al mentioned [2] (thanks him for
> taking some time on it), it was used for our debugging use),
> and it didn't cause any extra burden to vfs or other subsystems.

It would still have been a lot less effort for everyone without
the idiotic staging detour.