Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 1 Jul 2006 20:17:02 +0200 | From | Tomasz Torcz <> | Subject | Re: ext4 features |
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On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 07:47:16PM +0200, Thomas Glanzmann wrote: > Hello, > > > Checksums are not very useful for themselves. They are useful when we > > have other copy of data (think raid mirroring) so data can be > > reconstructed from working copy. > > it would be possible to identify data corruption. >
Yes, but what good is identification? We could only return I/O error. Ability to fix corruption (like ZFS) is the real killer.
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