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From: David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>
Subject: Re: Checksumming blocks? [was Re: the " 'official' point of view"
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Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 16:51:59 -0400
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To: Russell Leighton <russ@elegant-software.com>
Cc: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Adrian Ulrich <reiser4@blinkenlights.ch>, "Horst H. von Brand" <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>, bernd-schubert@gmx.de, reiserfs-list@namesys.com, jbglaw@lug-owl.de, clay.barnes@gmail.com, rudy@edsons.demon.nl, ipso@snappymail.ca, reiser@namesys.com, lkml@lpbproductions.com, jeff@garzik.org, tytso@mit.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

Russell Leighton wrote:

> Is there a recovery mechanism, or do you just be happy you know there is 
> a problem (and go to backup)?

You probably go to backup anyway.  The recovery mechanism just means you 
get to choose the downtime to restore from backup (if there is 
downtime), versus being suddenly down until you can restore.