On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 06:56:36PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > > Soooo... I don't know that I like the potential for stale data exposure, > which predisposes me not to like this patch. We like causing mke2fs to take 24+ hours per high capacity HDD even less. :-) Especially when the only user of the huge file is a trusted storage server where all data is stored encrypted at rest with multiple layers of encryption[1], so forcing a zero write pass is really pointless. [1] https://cloud.google.com/security/encryption-at-rest/default-encryption/ Cheers, - Ted
