[PATCH 00/48] xfsprogs: CRC support
Dave Chinner
david at fromorbit.com
Fri Jun 7 01:11:39 CDT 2013
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 10:25:23AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> This is the latest update of the series of patches tht introduces
> CRC support into xfsprogs. Of note, for CRC enabled filesystems;
>
> - write support for xfs-db is disabled
> - obfuscation for metadump is disabled
> - xfs_check does nothing ("always succeed") so that xfstests
> can run without needing this
> - all structures shoul dbe supported for printing in xfs_db
> - xfs_repair should be able to fully validate the structure
> of a CRC enabled filesystem.
> - xfs_repair still ignores CRC validation errors when
> reading metadata
> - mkfs.xfs enforces limitations on the format of CRC enabled
> filesystems (inode size, attr format, projid32bit, etc).
> - whenever a v5 superblock is parsed on read by any utility,
> it outputs a wanring about it being an experimental
> format.
>
> Bug reports, patches, comments, reviews, etc all welcome.
I've just realised that I haven't ported any of the recent kernel
fixes across to this patch set, so there will be another few patches
needed for those as well...
Cheers,
Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david at fromorbit.com
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