On Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 08:29:03PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Now that fsverity tells our merkle tree io functions about what a hash > of a data block full of zeroes looks like, we can use this information > to avoid writing out merkle tree blocks for sparse regions of the file. > For verified gold master images this can save quite a bit of overhead. Is this something that fsverity should be doing in a generic way? It feels odd to have XFS behave different from everyone else here, even if this does feel useful. Do we also need any hash validation that no one tampered with the metadata and added a new extent, or is this out of scope for fsverity?
