On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 11:27:51AM +0000, Leonid Bloch wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> Can you suggest a way of cryptographically verifying the content of a
> btrfs subvolume, besides the naïve approach, of running a cryptographic
> hash function on the output of btrfs send?
>
> Back in 2014, an RFC patch was sent to allow using sha256 instead of
> crc32c for checksumming.
> (https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/5363311)
> It was not merged. Had it been merged, one could just check the return
> value of btrfs scrub, instead of checksumming the whole btrfs send
> output, correct?
Hi Leonid,
I'm working on this feature currently but unfortunately get distracted with
other things all too often.
Thanks for your patience.
Byte,
Johannes
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