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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0608091352440.23404@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
Date:	Wed, 9 Aug 2006 13:53:31 +0200 (MEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To:	Hans Reiser <reiser@...esys.com>
cc:	Edward Shishkin <edward@...esys.com>,
	Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@....de>, ric@....com,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Adrian Ulrich <reiser4@...nkenlights.ch>,
	"Horst H. von Brand" <vonbrand@....utfsm.cl>,
	bernd-schubert@....de, reiserfs-list@...esys.com,
	jbglaw@...-owl.de, clay.barnes@...il.com, rudy@...ons.demon.nl,
	ipso@...ppymail.ca, lkml@...productions.com, jeff@...zik.org,
	tytso@....edu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org
 regarding reiser4 inclusion

>> Yes, it looks like a business of node plugin, but AFAIK, you
>> objected against such checks:
>
>Did I really?  Well, I think that allowing users to choose whether to
>checksum or not is a reasonable thing to allow them.  I personally would
>skip the checksum on my computer, but others....
>
>It could be a useful mkfs option....

It should preferably a runtime tunable variable, at best even
per-superblock and (overriding the sb setting), per-file.


Jan Engelhardt
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