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From: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: detection of silent corruption via ATA long sector reads
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 22:40:33 +0000
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Mark Lord wrote:

> There's a separate effort, involving drive vendors and kernel hackers,
> to provide end-to-end CRC protection of data.  I forget what it was called,
> but that's the future of this stuff for high-reliability requirements.

Are you thinking of BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY which tries to support T10/SCSI 
Data Integrity Field or the T13/ATA External Path Protection?