| Subject | Re: Advanced Linux Kernel/Enterprise Linux Kernel | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | 17 Nov 2000 17:58:58 -0700 |
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Daniel Phillips <news-innominate.list.linux.kernel@innominate.de> writes:
> Actually, I was planning on doing on putting in a hack to do something > like that: calculate a checksum after every buffer data update and check > it after write completion, to make sure nothing scribbled in the buffer > in the interim. This would also pick up some bad memory problems.
Be very careful that this just applies to metadata. For normal data this is a valid case. Weird but valid.
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