Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 7 Jun 2008 21:27:54 -0700 | | From | Greg KH <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5 of 7] block: Block/request layer data integrity support | |
On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 12:55:38AM -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> +5.1 NORMAL FILESYSTEM
> +
> + The normal filesystem is unaware that the underlying block device
> + is capable of sending/receiving integrity metadata. The IMD will
> + be automatically generated by the block layer at submit_bio() time
> + in case of a WRITE. A READ request will cause the I/O integrity
> + to be verified upon completion.
> +
> + IMD generation and verification can be toggled using the
> +
> + /sys/class/block/<bdev>/integrity/write_generate
> +
> + and
> +
> + /sys/class/block/<bdev>/integrity/read_verify
> +
> + flags.
> +
All of the sysfs interfaces should be documented in Documentation/ABI/
not here, otherwise they will be tough to find and figure out how to
use :)
thanks,
greg k-h
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