[PATCH] xfs/189: noattr2 invalid for CRC enabled filesystems

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Mon Feb 10 04:45:14 CST 2014


On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 12:52:00PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > I really don't like opencoding this.  Shouldn't we instead simplfy
> > pass a nocrc argument to _scratch_mkfs_xfs?
> 
> No, that simply breaks old mkfs binaries.

Well, we couldn't pass it unconditionally - the main idea is to hide
the magic and allow tests to easily create a noncrc filesystem.



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