Re: [PATCH 0/14] xfsprogs: various issues from review

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On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 04:06:01PM -0500, Ben Myers wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 04:41:54PM -0500, Ben Myers wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> > Pulled in 1-48 of the first series and 1-12 of the second.
> 
> Here is a patch series that addresses some of my outstanding concerns from
> review.  Some may be already fixed in the 2nd series, I'm not sure.  Eric also
> mentioned that he put the updated branch through coverity and found some
> defects.  There may be some overlap there too.
> 
> Some of these are just reminders for myself to make sure certain items are
> addressed eventually.  Sorry for the noise.

I'll stop at 9.  The rest of them are notes to myself:

* xfs_db write support needs to be done
* xfs_metadump obfuscation needs to be done
* xfs_mdrestore needs to work 
* xfs_check needs work

-Ben

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