Btrfs Deprecating Its Integrity Checker Tool

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Btrfs Deprecating Its Integrity Checker Tool

Btrfs has long provided a built-in integrity checker tool into the file-system driver. However, slated for Linux 6.6 is deprecating of this integrity checker...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Btrfs-Deprecate-Integrity-Check

[Vorpal]

Didn't even know this feature existed.

[JEBjames]

Michael

Typo/grammar

"can be optionally enable to verify" should probably be "can be optionally enabled to verify"

[EphemeralEft]

Didn't even know this feature existed.

The Kconfig title has been "Btrfs with integrity check tool compiled in (DANGEROUS)" for at least a year. So I (and probably most people) who came across the option left it disabled.

[EphemeralEft]

I still don't know what this feature actually does. It sounds like an automatic scrub on sections right after they're written, but that still wouldn't help in the event of a power outage...

[Weasel]

I think btrfs is a maintenance burden too, let's remove it.

[anarki2]

:'D sums up the story of Btrfs pretty well.

[elbar]

Has Btrfs some foundation to preserve and gain market traction and maybe some adoption among those who could like it and maybe make some progress?

[ferry]

I think btrfs is a maintenance burden too, let's remove it.

The whole of Linux is a maintenance burden. Oh wait, some people call that their job.

[fong38]

The whole of Linux is a maintenance burden. Oh wait, some people call that their job.

Life itself is a maintenance burden, it's time to unalive ourselves.