Re: Does data checksumming remain for files with No_COW file attribute?

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On Sat, 24 Sep 2016 15:26:14 +0300
Alexander Tomokhov <alexoundos@xxxxx> wrote:

> does setting No_COW on a file (chattr +C) imply disabling data checksumming on it?

Yes. IIRC the reasoning was that it's more difficult to track checksums of
data which is being overwritten in-place (as opposed to CoW).

> may it disable checksumming only for newly written extents and keep for reading existing ones?

You can't apply chattr +C to any files of non-zero length, so by definition
there won't be any pre-existing checksummed extents in that file.

-- 
With respect,
Roman

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