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

[Jim Rees]

Theodore Ts'o wrote:

  The problem is this code isn't done yet, and journal_checksum is
  really not ready for prime time.  When it is ready, my plan is to wire
  it up so it is enabled by default; at the moment, it was intended for
  developer experimentation only.  As I said, it's my fault for not
  clearly labelling it "Not for you!", or putting it under an #ifdef to
  prevent unwary civilians from coming across the feature and saying,
  "oooh, shiny!" and turning it on.  :-(

Perhaps a word or two in the mount man page would be appropriate?
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