On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 08:30:00AM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > Or you could leave the unfinished tree as-is; that will waste space, but > if userspace tries again, the xattr code will replace the old merkle > tree block contents with the new ones. This assumes that we're not > using XATTR_CREATE during FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY. This should work, though if the file was shrunk between the FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY that was interrupted and the one that completed, there may be extra Merkle tree blocks left over. BTW, is xfs_repair planned to do anything about any such extra blocks? - Eric
