Re: Apparent serious progressive ext4 data corruption bug in 3.6.3(and other stable branches?)

From: Theodore Ts'o
Date: Fri Oct 26 2012 - 20:23:04 EST


On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 10:19:21PM +0100, Nix wrote:
> > prevent unwary civilians from coming across the feature and saying,
> > "oooh, shiny!" and turning it on. :-(
>
> Or having it turned on by default either, which seems to be the case
> now.

Huh? It's not turned on by default. If you mount with no mount
options, journal checksums are *not* turned on.

- Ted
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