[PATCH] mkfs: default to CRC enabled filesystems

Eric Sandeen sandeen at sandeen.net
Thu Mar 19 09:58:26 CDT 2015


On 3/19/15 9:55 AM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 3/18/15 6:22 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
>> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner at redhat.com>
>>
>> It's time to change the mkfs defaults to enable CRCs for all new
>> filesystems. While there, also enable the free inode btree by
>> default, too, as that functioanlity has also had long enough to make
> 
> "functionality" ;)
> 
>> it into distro kernels, too.
> 
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner at redhat.com>

Forgot to add; needs manpage updates as well:

"By default, mkfs.xfs will not enable metadata CRCs."
"By default, mkfs.xfs will not create free inode btrees."

-Eric



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