linux-ext4 - Re: Apparent serious progressive ext4 data corruption bug in 3.6.3 (and other stable branches?)

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Message-ID: <20121027002258.GB31030@thunk.org>
Date:	Fri, 26 Oct 2012 20:22:58 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Nix <nix@...eri.org.uk>
Cc:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
	Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@...app.com>,
	Peng Tao <bergwolf@...il.com>, Trond.Myklebust@...app.com,
	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Apparent serious progressive ext4 data corruption bug in 3.6.3
 (and other stable branches?)

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 10:19:21PM +0100, Nix wrote:
> > prevent unwary civilians from coming across the feature and saying,
> > "oooh, shiny!" and turning it on.  :-(
> 
> Or having it turned on by default either, which seems to be the case
> now.

Huh?  It's not turned on by default.  If you mount with no mount
options, journal checksums are *not* turned on.

	 	 	       	     - Ted
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