Re: GIT PULL] ext4 updates for 3.5

Mark Lord
2012-06-01T16:45:27Z

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!