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Date:      Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:28:39 +0200
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
To:        Wes Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: UFS2 metadata checksums
Message-ID:  <9bbcef730904231528v6badb9d1u27d89fb0e1cb1cb9@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0904231715220.98970@ibyngvyr.purzvxnyf.bet>
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2009/4/24 Wes Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org>:
> On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Ivan Voras wrote:
>
>> Scott Burns wrote:
>>
>>> 2) Is there a demand for this in FreeBSD?
>>
>> Speaking for myself, I'd like it on the systems I maintain. (I'd also
>> like a sysctl to ignore the errors, just in case :) ).
>
> That's actually something ZFS could use if you ask me. In one instance I had
> some bad ram that was causing checksum errors (zfs is better than memtest
> for finding bad ram!), and I had to comment out the ECHKSUM error from the
> kernel to recover the pieces of the file that were reported corrupt.

Yes, this is my inspiration :)



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