linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 09/54] tune2fs: disable csum verification before resizing inode

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Message-ID: <20150127161152.GI2453@thunk.org>
Date:	Tue, 27 Jan 2015 11:11:52 -0500
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/54] tune2fs: disable csum verification before resizing
 inode

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 11:36:31PM -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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