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On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 08:17:02PM +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > 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. Isn't that what we have RAID-1/5/6 for? Helge Hafting - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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