[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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