Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: Advanced Linux Kernel/Enterprise Linux Kernel | Date | Sat, 18 Nov 2000 21:13:26 +0100 |
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"Eric W. Biederman" wrote: > > 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.
I'm not sure what you mean. With the exception of mmap'd files, the filesystem (or VFS) controls every transfer onto a buffer so... what does that leave?
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