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Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 07:41:08 -0400 From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu> To: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com> Cc: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/18] e2fsck: toggle checksum verification error reporting appropriately On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 12:38:26AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > > We could make e2fsck verify the checksums itself, though we'd have to provide a > way for either (a) libext2fs to provide the raw buffer data to e2fsck or (b) > e2fsck to find the block number in question and (re)read the raw buffer, since > the checksums are computed against the on-disk structures. Hmm. Another possibility is we could change the functions so that if there is a checksum error, we return the error code, but we also return the contents of the inode, directory entry, etc. to the caller. - Ted -- 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
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