On 26 Oct 2012, Theodore Ts'o uttered the following: > 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 not of everything it implies, since that's quite tricky to track down (it's basically the same work needed for softupdates, but in reverse). Hence the e2fsck check, I suppose. > prevent unwary civilians from coming across the feature and saying, > "oooh, shiny!" and turning it on. :-( Or having it turned on by default either, which seems to be the case now. -- NULL && (void) -- 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
