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, 25 Apr 2025 19:51:43 +0000 (21:51 +0200)
commitbd52a63588e2897cccd83993dd632c207e5f5993
treee2c643ee5108c97a23e08c9d0a068f5cf64945cd
parenta9fa135dc4436c8b2f9a75e6d2fd5d36da276c57
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