Re: [PATCH 25/26] xfs: make it possible to disable fsverity

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On Thu, May 09, 2024 at 08:06:46AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, May 09, 2024 at 07:45:42AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > How do you salvage the content of a fsverity file if the merkle tree
> > hashes don't match the data?  I'm thinking about the backup disk usecase
> > where you enable fsverity to detect bitrot in your video files but
> > they'd otherwise be mostly playable if it weren't for the EIO.
> 
> Why would you enable fsverity for DVD images on your backup files?

xfs doesn't do data block checksums.

I already have a dumb python program that basically duplicates fsverity
style merkle trees but I was looking forward to sunsetting it... :P

--D




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