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From: Mark Lord <kernel@teksavvy.com>
To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GIT PULL] ext4 updates for 3.5
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:45:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FC8F1A7.2060208@teksavvy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1SaTSI-0005UV-4B@tytso-glaptop.cam.corp.google.com>

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!

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-06-01 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-01 15:07 GIT PULL] ext4 updates for 3.5 Theodore Ts'o
2012-06-01 15:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-06-01 17:19   ` Linus Torvalds
2012-06-01 17:43     ` Ted Ts'o
2012-06-01 17:56       ` Linus Torvalds
2012-06-01 16:45 ` Mark Lord [this message]
2012-06-01 17:53   ` Ted Ts'o

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