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From: Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.net>
To: Alexander Tomokhov <alexoundos@ya.ru>
Cc: "linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Does data checksumming remain for files with No_COW file attribute?
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2016 17:40:12 +0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160924174012.51d44caa@natsu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <767591474719974@web21o.yandex.ru>

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On Sat, 24 Sep 2016 15:26:14 +0300
Alexander Tomokhov <alexoundos@ya.ru> wrote:

> does setting No_COW on a file (chattr +C) imply disabling data checksumming on it?

Yes. IIRC the reasoning was that it's more difficult to track checksums of
data which is being overwritten in-place (as opposed to CoW).

> may it disable checksumming only for newly written extents and keep for reading existing ones?

You can't apply chattr +C to any files of non-zero length, so by definition
there won't be any pre-existing checksummed extents in that file.

-- 
With respect,
Roman

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-09-24 12:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-24 12:26 Does data checksumming remain for files with No_COW file attribute? Alexander Tomokhov
2016-09-24 12:37 ` Hugo Mills
2016-09-24 23:25   ` Alexander Tomokhov
2016-09-24 23:50     ` Adam Borowski
2016-09-25  5:44       ` Duncan
2016-09-26 20:41         ` Adam Borowski
2016-09-24 12:40 ` Roman Mamedov [this message]
2016-09-24 12:43   ` Hugo Mills
2016-09-24 18:11     ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2016-09-25 13:49       ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2016-09-25 19:53         ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2016-09-26 11:11       ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-09-24 18:09   ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2016-09-24 21:44     ` Adam Borowski
2016-09-24 22:52       ` Christoph Anton Mitterer

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