Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Add support for other checksums

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On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 11:38:40AM +0200, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 07:19:54PM +0200, David Sterba wrote:
> > 1-5 are reviewed and ok, 6 and 13 should be reworked, 7-12 is ok. I
> > can't put the branch to next yet due to the csum formatting "issues" but
> > will do once you resend. Should be ok just 6 and 13 as they're
> > independent.
> 
> I'd still like to hold back 13/13. SHA-256 doesn't seem to be well received by
> the community as the "slow" hash and using a plain SHA-256 is not sufficient
> for the dm-verity/fs-verity like approach I intend to implement in subsequent
> patches.
> 
> For the record, the current idea is to use a HMAC(SHA-256) as checksum
> algorithm with a key provided at mkfs and mount time.

The patch actually adding the new hash won't be merged to any
to-be-released branch until we have the final list, but for testing
purposes the patch will be in for-next and available via linux-next.



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