[PATCH] xfsdump: handle dump files with checksum bug
Bill Kendall
wkendall at sgi.com
Tue Sep 27 14:17:04 CDT 2011
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
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