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    SubjectRe: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion
    Edward Shishkin wrote:

    > Hans Reiser wrote:
    >
    >> Edward Shishkin wrote:
    >>
    >>
    >>>>
    >>>> How about we switch to ecc, which would help with bit rot not sector
    >>>> loss?
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>
    >>> Interesting aspect.
    >>>
    >>> Yes, we can implement ECC as a special crypto transform that inflates
    >>> data. As I mentioned earlier, it is possible via translation of key
    >>> offsets with scale factor > 1.
    >>>
    >>> Of course, it is better then nothing, but anyway meta-data remains
    >>> ecc-unprotected, and, hence, robustness is not increased..
    >>>
    >>> Edward.
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >> Would you prefer to do it as a node layout plugin instead, so as to get
    >> the metadata?
    >>
    >
    > Yes, it looks like a business of node plugin, but AFAIK, you
    > objected against such checks:

    Did I really? Well, I think that allowing users to choose whether to
    checksum or not is a reasonable thing to allow them. I personally would
    skip the checksum on my computer, but others....

    It could be a useful mkfs option....

    > currently only bitmap nodes have
    > a protection (checksum); supporting ecc-signatures is more
    > space/cpu expensive.
    >
    > Edward.
    >
    >

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