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    fs-verity: add a documentation file · 6ff2deb2
    Eric Biggers authored
    Add a documentation file for fs-verity, covering:
    
    - Introduction
    - Use cases
    - User API
        - FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY
        - FS_IOC_MEASURE_VERITY
        - FS_IOC_GETFLAGS
    - Accessing verity files
    - File measurement computation
        - Merkle tree
        - fs-verity descriptor
    - Built-in signature verification
    - Filesystem support
        - ext4
        - f2fs
    - Implementation details
        - Verifying data
            - Pagecache
            - Block device based filesystems
    - Userspace utility
    - Tests
    - FAQ
    Reviewed-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarJaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
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