what is the current state of ext4 metadata checksums in Fedora?

[Michał Piotrowski]

2013/1/23 Benjamin Lewis <ben.lewis at benl.co.uk>:
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> 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
>>
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