On Thu, May 09, 2024 at 08:09:55AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > 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 Well, fsverity as-is is intended for use cases where you care about integrity of the file. For that disabling it really doesn't make sense. If we have other use cases we can probably add a variant of fsverity that clearly deals with non-integrity checksums. Although just disabling them if they mismatch still feels like a somewhat odd usage model.
