On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 07:47:16PM +0200, Thomas Glanzmann wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> > Checksums are not very useful for themselves. They are useful when we
> > have other copy of data (think raid mirroring) so data can be
> > reconstructed from working copy.
> 
> it would be possible to identify data corruption.
> 

  Yes, but what good is identification? We could only return I/O error.
Ability to fix corruption (like ZFS) is the real killer.

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