> This isn't the first time that journal_checksum has proven problematic. > It's a shame that we're stuck between two error-inducing stools here... The problem is that it currently bails out be aborting the entire journal replay, and the file system will get left in a mess when it does that. It's actually safer today to just be blissfully ignorant of a corrupted block in the journal, than to have the journal getting aborted mid-replay when we detect a corrupted commit. The plan is that eventually, we will have checksums on a per-journalled block basis, instead of a per-commit basis, and when we get a failed checksum, we skip the replay of that block, but we keep going and replay all of the other blocks and commits. We'll then set the "file system corrupted" bit and force an e2fsck check. The problem is this code isn't done yet, and journal_checksum is really not ready for prime time. When it is ready, my plan is to wire it up so it is enabled by default; at the moment, it was intended for developer experimentation only. As I said, it's my fault for not clearly labelling it "Not for you!", or putting it under an #ifdef to prevent unwary civilians from coming across the feature and saying, "oooh, shiny!" and turning it on. :-( - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
