Re: [PATCH] xfsdump: handle dump files with checksum bug

[Bill Kendall <wkendall@xxxxxxx>]

On 09/23/2011 10:26 AM, Alex Elder wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-09-23 at 07:45 -0500, Bill Kendall wrote:
> > +                               mlog( MLOG_NORMAL | MLOG_WARNING, _(
> > +                                       "extattr header checksum "
> > +                                       "could not be verified\n") );
> Is there any way to slightly change this message so
> that someone who saw it would feel like "I got this
> warning but it's really OK"?  If I were a user and
> got this message I would be a little afraid that
> it meant something was really wrong with what got
> restored--possibly the whole thing, or just on
> some unnamed file, never to be found.
>
> Maybe "old-style extattr header checksums being
> ignored".  (I'm sure you can come up with better,
> I just like to offer *something* when I suggest
> a change.)
I more or less like what you've suggested. How about this:

   "ignoring old-style extattr header checksums"

Bill