From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: RFC: detection of silent corruption via ATA long sector reads Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 08:48:33 -0500 Message-ID: <495A26B1.1070004@rtr.ca> References: <49580061.9060506@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <49580061.9060506@yahoo.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Sitsofe Wheeler Cc: Greg Freemyer , Redeeman , piergiorgio.sartor@nexgo.de, neilb@suse.de, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: > 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? .. One or both of those, I think. Bad memory here, though! :)