Re: Karel, some followup Q:s on your RAID1C patch

2016-02-01 Thread Janne Johansson
2016-01-31 9:24 GMT+01:00 Tinker : > Q1: > > My most important question to you is, the DATA that you CHECKSUM, do you > include the SECTOR NUMBER (or other disk location info) of that data into > your checksum function's inputs, so if the underlying storage's storage >

Re: Karel, some followup Q:s on your RAID1C patch

2016-02-01 Thread Janne Johansson
I did not oppose adding the sector number, just the "idea" that internal relocations would make this number change. If it did, then everything would break for all filesystems, so that is obviously not how it is done. 2016-02-01 11:11 GMT+01:00 Tinker : > On 2016-02-01

Re: Karel, some followup Q:s on your RAID1C patch

2016-02-01 Thread Tinker
On 2016-02-01 16:29, Janne Johansson wrote: 2016-01-31 9:24 GMT+01:00 Tinker : Q1: My most important question to you is, the DATA that you CHECKSUM, do you include the SECTOR NUMBER (or other disk location info) of that data into your checksum function's inputs, so if

Re: Karel, some followup Q:s on your RAID1C patch

2016-02-01 Thread Tinker
Since these are not emails with patches, let's not disturb tech@ but have this thread moved to misc@ , thanks. On 2016-02-01 18:40, Janne Johansson wrote: I did not oppose adding the sector number, just the "idea" that internal relocations would make this number change. If it did, then

Karel, some followup Q:s on your RAID1C patch

2016-01-31 Thread Tinker
Hi Karel, Can you please tell me, about your RAID1C patch: So basically, your RAID1C patch is just the ordinary softraid, BUT, with checksums for each sector, located right at the end of the physical disc. Q1: My most important question to you is, the DATA that you CHECKSUM, do you

Re: Karel, some followup Q:s on your RAID1C patch

2016-01-31 Thread Tinker
Migrating this thread to misc@ . On 2016-01-31 16:24, Tinker wrote: Hi Karel, Can you please tell me, about your RAID1C patch: So basically, your RAID1C patch is just the ordinary softraid, BUT, with checksums for each sector, located right at the end of the physical disc. Q1: My most