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Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:45:27 -0400
From: Mark Lord <kernel@teksavvy.com>
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To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: GIT PULL] ext4 updates for 3.5
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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!

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