Re: what is the current state of ext4 metadata checksums in Fedora?
On Tue, 22 Jan 2013, Eric Sandeen wrote: On 1/22/13 7:10 PM, Michał Piotrowski wrote: Hi, Ext4 metadata checksums feature was merged into Linux 3.6. Can I use it out of the box with Fedora kernel or is there some magic switch to enable it? Are there any plans to support it in e2fsprogs shipped in Fedora - backport or rebase to 1.43 version? Last but equally important - how stable this feature is? Do anyone has any experience with it? I've been using it for a few months, and whilst it hasn't yet found any corruption that would otherwise have been missed (which probably means my drives are good!), it also hasn't been the cause of any. Now, the inline_data patches were a whole world of pain... There is no 1.43 released yet, latest is 1.42.7 which I just built in rawhide. The WIP branch in git has the metadata checksum bits, so you could play with that if you want. I have a .srpm of it I can upload somewhere if you are interested. I have no plans to backport unreleased upstream work in progress to Fedora, I don't think that'd be wise. To be honest, I haven't yet done a whole lot of testing with it myself, yet. -Eric -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: what is the current state of ext4 metadata checksums in Fedora?
2013/1/23 Benjamin Lewis ben.le...@benl.co.uk: [..] I've been using it for a few months, and whilst it hasn't yet found any corruption that would otherwise have been missed (which probably means my drives are good!), it also hasn't been the cause of any. Good to hear. I think I'll try this feature when I buy new HDD in a next few days. Now, the inline_data patches were a whole world of pain... There is no 1.43 released yet, latest is 1.42.7 which I just built in rawhide. The WIP branch in git has the metadata checksum bits, so you could play with that if you want. I have a .srpm of it I can upload somewhere if you are interested. Would be great if you can share this. Thanks in advance! I have no plans to backport unreleased upstream work in progress to Fedora, I don't think that'd be wise. To be honest, I haven't yet done a whole lot of testing with it myself, yet. -Eric -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- Best regards, Michal http://eventhorizon.pl/ https://getactive.pl/ -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
what is the current state of ext4 metadata checksums in Fedora?
Hi, Ext4 metadata checksums feature was merged into Linux 3.6. Can I use it out of the box with Fedora kernel or is there some magic switch to enable it? Are there any plans to support it in e2fsprogs shipped in Fedora - backport or rebase to 1.43 version? Last but equally important - how stable this feature is? Do anyone has any experience with it? -- Best regards, Michal http://eventhorizon.pl/ https://getactive.pl/ -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: what is the current state of ext4 metadata checksums in Fedora?
On 1/22/13 7:10 PM, Michał Piotrowski wrote: Hi, Ext4 metadata checksums feature was merged into Linux 3.6. Can I use it out of the box with Fedora kernel or is there some magic switch to enable it? Are there any plans to support it in e2fsprogs shipped in Fedora - backport or rebase to 1.43 version? Last but equally important - how stable this feature is? Do anyone has any experience with it? There is no 1.43 released yet, latest is 1.42.7 which I just built in rawhide. The WIP branch in git has the metadata checksum bits, so you could play with that if you want. I have no plans to backport unreleased upstream work in progress to Fedora, I don't think that'd be wise. To be honest, I haven't yet done a whole lot of testing with it myself, yet. -Eric -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
