On Thu, May 09, 2024 at 08:13:48AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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. Yeah, it definitely exists in the same weird grey area of turning off metadata checksum validation to extract as many files from a busted fs as can be done. --D
