[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-Id: <1180521400.13497.1.camel@alpha.linsyssoft.com>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 16:06:40 +0530
From: Girish Shilamkar <girish@...sterfs.com>
To: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@...sterfs.com>
Subject: Re: [Patch 0/2] Journal Checksums
Hi,
I forgot mention, this patch is spinoff of patch originally written by
Vijayan Prabhakaran.
Thanks & Regards.
Girish
On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 16:01 +0530, Girish Shilamkar wrote:
> Hi,
> The following patch set adds journal checksumming support for linux
> kernel and e2fsprogs.
>
> Two new flags have been added i.e
> JBD2_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_ASYNC_COMMIT and JBD2_FEATURE_COMPAT_CHECKSUM.
>
> _CHECKSUM flag indicates that the commit block contains the checksum for
> the blocks described the the descriptor blocks.
> Due to checksums, writing of the commit record no longer needs to be
> synchronous, this behavior is controlled using _ASYNC_COMMIT flag. Older
> kernels/e2fsck should not be able to recover the journal with
> _ASYNC_COMMIT hence it is made incompat.
> The commit header has been extended to hold the checksum along with the
> type of the checksum.
>
> For recovery in pass scan checksums are verified to ensure the sanity
> and completeness(in case of _ASYNC_COMMIT) of every transaction.
>
> Any suggestions/comments are welcome.
>
> Thanks & Regards,
> Girish.
>
>
>
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Powered by blists - more mailing lists