Re: HAMMER filesystem update - design document

[Michael Neumann <mneumann@xxxxxxxx>]

Francois Tigeot schrieb:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 12:33:45PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> >     Ok, here's the final design document that I am now implementing.
> >     Again, I expect most or all of these features to be ready and the
> >     filesystem to be beta-quality by the December release.
>
> Wow, this seems pretty good.
>
> What about data corruption issues ?
>
> Have you thought about implementing some sort of checksumming mechanism ?
>
> We cannot assume hardware to be absolutely reliable. There may be some
> silent corruption going on the disk or network layers, etc...

According to Matt's design document:

    "All information in a HAMMER filesystem is CRCd to detect
     corruption."

Regards,

  Michael