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From: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
To: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: dsterba@suse.cz, Facebook <clm@fb.com>, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] btrfs: csum: Introduce partial csum for tree block.
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 17:31:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150625153109.GJ726@twin.jikos.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55836FB3.1060704@cn.fujitsu.com>

On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 09:26:11AM +0800, Qu Wenruo wrote:
> > I agree with that. I'm still not convinced that adding all the kernel
> > code to repair the data is justified, compared to the block-level
> > redundancy alternatives.
> 
> Totally agree with this.
> That's why we have support for RAID1/5/6/10.
> 
> I also hate to add complexity to kernel codes, especially when the scrub 
> codes are already quite complex.
> 
> But in fact, my teammate Zhao Lei is already doing some work to make 
> scrub codes clean and neat.

Doing cleanups is a good thing regardless of new features, please don't
hesitate to post them even if we do not agree to implement the partial
csum/repair.

I'm not against adding the partial csums & repair, but at the moment I'm
not convinced.

      reply	other threads:[~2015-06-25 15:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-12  3:00 [PATCH RFC] btrfs: csum: Introduce partial csum for tree block Qu Wenruo
2015-06-12 14:10 ` Liu Bo
2015-06-12 16:23 ` Chris Mason
2015-06-15  8:02   ` Qu Wenruo
2015-06-15 13:15     ` David Sterba
2015-06-16  1:22       ` Qu Wenruo
2015-06-16  2:39         ` Qu Wenruo
2015-06-18  1:34           ` Qu Wenruo
2015-06-18 15:57             ` Facebook
2015-06-18 17:06               ` David Sterba
2015-06-19  1:26                 ` Qu Wenruo
2015-06-25 15:31                   ` David Sterba [this message]

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