[PATCH 00/48] xfsprogs: CRC support
Ben Myers
bpm at sgi.com
Fri Jun 7 16:04:47 CDT 2013
Hey,
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 04:11:39PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> 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...
These two series are applied to the crc-dev branch at
git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/cmds/xfsprogs.git
Regards,
Ben
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