Re: [Patch 0/2] Journal Checksums

[Girish Shilamkar <girish@clusterfs.com>]

Hi,
	I forgot mention, this patch is spinoff of patch originally written by
Vijayan Prabhakaran.

Thanks & Regards.
Girish

On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 16:01 +0530, Girish Shilamkar wrote:
> Hi,
>  	The following patch set adds journal checksumming support for linux
> kernel and e2fsprogs. 
> 
> Two new flags have been added i.e 
> JBD2_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_ASYNC_COMMIT and JBD2_FEATURE_COMPAT_CHECKSUM.
> 
> _CHECKSUM flag indicates that the commit block contains the checksum for
> the blocks described the the descriptor blocks.
> Due to checksums, writing of the commit record no longer needs to be
> synchronous, this behavior is controlled using _ASYNC_COMMIT flag. Older
> kernels/e2fsck should not be able to recover the journal with
> _ASYNC_COMMIT hence it is made incompat. 
> The commit header has been extended to hold the checksum along with the
> type of the checksum.
> 
> For recovery in pass scan checksums are verified to ensure the sanity
> and completeness(in case of _ASYNC_COMMIT) of every transaction.
> 
> Any suggestions/comments are welcome.
> 
> Thanks & Regards,
> Girish.
> 
> 
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