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>
Fri, 3 Nov 2023 04:15:32 +0000 (05:15 +0100)
commitaa663c2051ed69c51a9c7fc88c3548834438d6ce
tree474d6f92bf6a3150a7b47e8e6e23c2d8874c2275
parent3977cf62ac6805f745976a7faacccdfa037a8bb8
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