Btrfs Deprecating Its Integrity Checker Tool

[Weasel]

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

[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...

[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.

[JEBjames]

Michael

Typo/grammar

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

[Vorpal]

Didn't even know this feature existed.

[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