Hi, I forgot mention, this patch is spinoff of patch originally written by Vijayan Prabhakaran. Thanks & Regards. Girish On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 16:01 +0530, Girish Shilamkar wrote: > Hi, > The following patch set adds journal checksumming support for linux > kernel and e2fsprogs. > > Two new flags have been added i.e > JBD2_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_ASYNC_COMMIT and JBD2_FEATURE_COMPAT_CHECKSUM. > > _CHECKSUM flag indicates that the commit block contains the checksum for > the blocks described the the descriptor blocks. > Due to checksums, writing of the commit record no longer needs to be > synchronous, this behavior is controlled using _ASYNC_COMMIT flag. Older > kernels/e2fsck should not be able to recover the journal with > _ASYNC_COMMIT hence it is made incompat. > The commit header has been extended to hold the checksum along with the > type of the checksum. > > For recovery in pass scan checksums are verified to ensure the sanity > and completeness(in case of _ASYNC_COMMIT) of every transaction. > > Any suggestions/comments are welcome. > > Thanks & Regards, > Girish. > > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
