Re: [PATCH] Add checks to validate extent entries.

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On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 11:26:12AM +0100, Thiemo Nagel wrote:
> Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> > This patch adds check to validate the extent entries along
> > with extent  headers. Should handle crash with corrupt filesystem.
> 
> While your patch probably decreases the average number of checks that
> are done, it makes single random accesses quite expensive since always
> complete extent blocks are checked at once, even if just a single pblock
> is accessed.  No idea whether there are workloads which have that as a
> typical access pattern...

The second patch make sure we do it only when we read the extent
information from the disk.

-aneesh
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