btrfs: warn about RAID5/6 being experimental at mount time
authorAdam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
Tue, 28 Mar 2017 14:55:05 +0000 (16:55 +0200)
committerSalvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
Thu, 31 Aug 2023 20:24:51 +0000 (21:24 +0100)
commit71b35bcb41e22425c3fadf16b88f813ea78b9d6f
tree100df7c9e17e71f6013b448130bf916dc5a1c0e1
parente2f22f7ca8f96a2516c1f28aea304ba314c68452
btrfs: warn about RAID5/6 being experimental at mount time

Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/863290
Origin: https://bugs.debian.org/863290#5

Too many people come complaining about losing their data -- and indeed,
there's no warning outside a wiki and the mailing list tribal knowledge.
Message severity chosen for consistency with XFS -- "alert" makes dmesg
produce nice red background which should get the point across.

Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
[bwh: Also add_taint() so this is flagged in bug reports]
[2023-01-10: still accurate according to btrfs-progs own manpage:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kdave/btrfs-progs.git/commit/?id=922797e15590b836e377d6dc47b828356cafc2a9]

Gbp-Pq: Topic debian
Gbp-Pq: Name btrfs-warn-about-raid5-6-being-experimental-at-mount.patch
fs/btrfs/disk-io.c