On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 12:47:57PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> 
> On Sep 27, 2013, at 11:51 AM, Zach Brown <z...@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> >>> 2) How may I tell btrfs to ignore all csums and just assume they are
> >>> all correct? The reason for wanting this is in case the csum is
> >>> garbled and the file is intact, or the csum is correct and the file is
> >>> only partially garbled, but may still contain useful data.
> >> 
> >>   You can't, right now. There's discussion on IRC about this very
> >> point right now. :)
> > 
> > Well, hold on.  Yes, you can't tell it to just not check checksums.
> > 
> > But keep reading.  It sounds like he thinks that *any* reads to the file
> > will error once any checksum has failed.  Surely that's not true, you
> > can do use like dd conv=noerror and read all the extents of the file
> > whose checksums are still valid.
> 
> Would that get me an identically sized copy of the file, such as it is?

As far as I know, yes.

- z
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