Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion

Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-09T12:29:05Z

>> Yes, it looks like a business of node plugin, but AFAIK, you
>> objected against such checks:
>
>Did I really? Well, I think that allowing users to choose whether to
>checksum or not is a reasonable thing to allow them. I personally would
>skip the checksum on my computer, but others....
>
>It could be a useful mkfs option....

It should preferably a runtime tunable variable, at best even
per-superblock and (overriding the sb setting), per-file.

Jan Engelhardt
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