linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] tune2fs: disable csum verification before resizing inode

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Message-ID: <20141203033340.GR13618@thunk.org>
Date:	Tue, 2 Dec 2014 22:33:40 -0500
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
Cc:	Xiaoguang Wang <wangxg.fnst@...fujitsu.com>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tune2fs: disable csum verification before resizing inode

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 11:10:39AM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> When we're turning on metadata checksumming /and/ resizing the inode
> at the same time, disable checksum verification during the
> resize_inode() call because the subroutines it calls will try to
> verify the checksums (which have not yet been set), causing the
> operation to fail unnecessarily.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@...cle.com>

Applied, thanks.

						- Ted
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