Re: Meaning of \"no_csum\" field when scrubbing with -R option

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Wang Shilong posted on Fri, 21 Feb 2014 10:30:25 +0800 as excerpted:

>>>> So my question is, why does scrub show a high (i.e. non-zero) value
>>>> for no_csum? I never enabled nodatasum or a similar option.

> This should be related to btrfs free space cache, it is designed as
> nocow without checksums.

That's a reasonable explanation.  Thanks. =:^)

(And anyway, if the space-cache gets corrupted, there are mount options 
to clear it, etc, and it's easily rebuilt even if it takes long enough 
keeping the cache is useful in general, so it's not a huge deal needing 
checksummed.)

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