linux-kernel - Re: GIT PULL] ext4 updates for 3.5

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Message-ID: <4FC8F1A7.2060208@teksavvy.com>
Date:	Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:45:27 -0400
From:	Mark Lord <kernel@...savvy.com>
To:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
CC:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GIT PULL] ext4 updates for 3.5

On 12-06-01 11:07 AM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> Ext4 updates for 3.5
> 
> The major new feature added in this update is Darrick J. Wong's
> metadata checksum feature, which adds crc32 checksums to ext4's
> metadata fields.  There is also the usual set of cleanups and bug
> fixes.

That sounds vaguely like an on-disk change that may have issues
with systems that regularly switch between older and newer kernel versions.

Could you elaborate on it a bit more, thanks!

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