Re: [PATCH 00/48] xfsprogs: CRC support

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On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 10:25:23AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> This is the latest update of the series of patches tht introduces
> CRC support into xfsprogs. Of note, for CRC enabled filesystems;
> 
> 	- write support for xfs-db is disabled
> 	- obfuscation for metadump is disabled
> 	- xfs_check does nothing ("always succeed") so that xfstests
> 	  can run without needing this
> 	- all structures shoul dbe supported for printing in xfs_db
> 	- xfs_repair should be able to fully validate the structure
> 	  of a CRC enabled filesystem.
> 	- xfs_repair still ignores CRC validation errors when
> 	  reading metadata
> 	- mkfs.xfs enforces limitations on the format of CRC enabled
> 	  filesystems (inode size, attr format, projid32bit, etc).
> 	- whenever a v5 superblock is parsed on read by any utility,
> 	  it outputs a wanring about it being an experimental
> 	  format.
> 
> Bug reports, patches, comments, reviews, etc all welcome.

I've just realised that I haven't ported any of the recent kernel
fixes across to this patch set, so there will be another few patches
needed for those as well...

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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