Re: [dm-devel] Re: jbd2 inside a device mapper module

[Alberto Bertogli <albertito@blitiri.com.ar>]

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:50:14AM +0530, Shyam_Iyer@Dell.com wrote:
> Andreas Dilger wrote:
> > On Dec 25, 2008  12:35 -0200, Alberto Bertogli wrote:
> > > On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 06:49:15PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
> > > > I have no idea why you would need to do manual __breads().  No
> doubt
> > > > I'm missing some context here.  
> > >
> > > I'm writing (just for fun and learning purposes) a device mapper
> > > module that stores checksums on writes and verifies them on reads.
> The
> > > integrity metadata (currently just the checksum) is interleaved in
> the
> > > backing device: one sector holding the integrity metadata for the
> > > following 64 data sectors.
> 
> > Alex and I discussed implementing checksums for ext4 using an external
> device like this, and he might have some more design information for
> you.
> 
> 
> That external device could possibly be a TPM chip that can store
> checksums.

Thanks for the suggestion. The code I have at the moment (without the
journal stuff) already has the capability of storing checksums in a
different device. It's one of the reasons why I would prefer to avoid
using jbd.

I think I'll go with the "two metadatas" approach and see how it goes.
Worst case scenario is that I have to drop that code, which means to be
back where I am now, only with one less option.

Thanks,
		Alberto