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SubjectRe: [syzbot] [hfs?] WARNING in hfs_write_inode
On Fri, 21 Jul 2023, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

>
> You've misunderstood. Google have decided to subject the entire kernel
> (including obsolete unmaintained filesystems) to stress tests that it's
> never had before. IOW these bugs have been there since the code was
> merged. There's nothing to back out. There's no API change to blame.
> It's always been buggy and it's never mattered before.
>

I'm not blaming the unstable API for the bugs, I'm blaming it for the
workload. A stable API (like a userspace API) decreases the likelihood
that overloaded maintainers have to orphan a filesystem implementation.

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