Re: A couple of questions

2010-06-02 Thread Paul Millar
Hi Mike, On Monday 31 May 2010 22:33:23 Mike Fedyk wrote: On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Paul Millar paul.mil...@desy.de wrote: [...] My concern is that, if the server-software doesn't push the client-provided checksum then the FS checksum (plus T-10 DIF/DIX) would not provide

Re: A couple of questions

2010-06-02 Thread Paul Millar
On Tuesday 01 June 2010 15:39:52 Martin K. Petersen wrote: Paul == Paul Millar paul.mil...@desy.de writes: Paul My concern is that, if the server-software doesn't push the Paul client-provided checksum then the FS checksum (plus T-10 DIF/DIX) Paul would not provide a rigorous assurance

Re: A couple of questions

2010-05-31 Thread Paul Millar
Hi Hubert, On Thursday 27 May 2010 16:56:00 Hubert Kario wrote: Would [obtaining file checksum] be possible (without an awful lot of work)? [Calculating checksum in-memory] won't detect in-memory corruption though, but if you want to be resilant to this, you should be looking at ECC

Re: A couple of questions

2010-05-31 Thread Paul Millar
Hi Chris, On Thursday 27 May 2010 18:00:44 Chris Mason wrote: I'd suggest that you look at T10 DIF and DIX, which are targeted at exactly this kind of thing. We're looking at integrating dif/dix into btrfs at some point. I've been keeping half-an-eye on T10's work in ensuring end-to-end

A couple of questions

2010-05-27 Thread Paul Millar
Hi, I've been looking at Btrfs and have a couple of naive questions that don't seem to be answered on the wiki or in the articles I've read on the filesystem. First: discovering a file's checksum value. Here's the scenario: software is writing some data as a fresh file. This software