Re: [RFC PATCH] Btrfs: add sha256 checksum option

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Holger Hoffstätte posted on Mon, 24 Nov 2014 08:23:25 +0000 as excerpted:

>> Users can choose sha256 from mkfs.btrfs via
>> 
>> $ mkfs.btrfs -C 256 /device
> 
> Not sure how others feel about this, but it's probably easier for
> sysadmins to specify the algorithm by name from the set of supported
> ones, similar to how ssh does it ("ssh -C arcfour256").


Yes.  Simply 256 is waaay too generic for me to be comfortable with.  
256 /what/?

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