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>
Tue, 6 May 2025 19:33:52 +0000 (21:33 +0200)
commit08dbcf963a042db023bd868a923c63a9472e5038
treef58356e8cac29fe4019a953842f4c4b8fa9d33fe
parent81dd9a611938a0be0b4a0e3c9fd7ab6f86364d32
btrfs: warn about RAID5/6 being experimental at mount time

Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/863290
Origin: https://bugs.debian.org/863290#5
Forwarded: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/4105665.mVaztBssJx@bagend/

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]
[2024-03-17: still accurate; manpage is now in Documentation/btrfs-man5.rst
implementation went from disk-io.c to super.c; forwarded the issue]

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