Implementing checksums in XFS

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Mon Oct 25 08:45:07 CDT 2010


On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 10:55:40PM +0200, Michael Monnerie wrote:
> Oh that would be very welcome. A "secure" filesystem sounds really good, 
> especially if it's fast as XFS is :-)
> I'd implement it everywhere immediately as soon as it's available. Will 
> existing XFS's be upgradeable in some way other that backup/restore?

checksumming inodes and btree nodes means larger data structures for
those, so no there's no upgrade path available.




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