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, 22 May 2025 18:32:07 +0000 (20:32 +0200)
commit8c09a760c010d2a3de731d51e36aed18a5a8c535
treeea9714a1402c35bf38736577095be0d39002dfdd
parentd79259f661c3a8bd636437f048727bb100010a05
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]

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