Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 1 Jul 2006 19:47:16 +0200 | From | Thomas Glanzmann <> | Subject | Re: ext4 features |
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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.
> What's wrong with DM snapshots?
they're inefficient in matter of disk space consumption because they don't have a clue of the filesystems that are on top of them.
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