Re: JFFS3 & performance

Josh Boyer
2005-01-13T15:51:09Z

On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 16:55, Jared Hulbert wrote:
>
> I respectfully disagree. I don't think checksums are needed to
> protect you from NOR read errors *unless* the checksums are the only
> thing protecting the filesystem from bad things like crashes, power
> failures, and bugs.

Guess we'll have to agree to disagree then :). All I know is that I
want to be damn sure that the data I'm returning isn't totally screwed.
Call me paranoid. A checksum is the only way I know of doing that.

David summed it up pretty good. Crap happens in a multitude of ways.
Even a bug in the write method of the filesystem could cause invalid
data to be written. A checksum can at least help point stuff like that
out.

Poo is icky. I'd rather try to go around it than jump in the middle of
it. :)