Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Jul 2006 22:22:19 +0200 | Subject | Re: ext4 features | From | Helge Hafting <> |
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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
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