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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext2fs corruption again
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 21:33:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010916213353.E216@bug.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BA3156C.9050704@korseby.net> <20010915144236.V26627@khan.acc.umu.se> <20010916001943.A984@bug.ucw.cz> <20010915175100.D1541@turbolinux.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010915175100.D1541@turbolinux.com>; from Andreas Dilger on Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 05:51:00PM -0600

Hi!

> > Install crc loop device, and if disk does silent errors, you'll know.
> 
> Where do you store the CRCs?  It appears that they are written to another
> block device.  Also, how do you initialize the CRC table for an existing
> filesystem?

You just read the device in special mode. That forces it to recompute
crc-s.

> What would make this considerably more useful is to be able to write the
> CRCs into a regular file, as it would be a bit of a pain to have a partition
> for each CRC loop device to store the CRCs in.

By -o loop, you can turn regular file into blockdevice ;-).

> Otherwise, it looks very useful, and could be handy in tracking down
> reports like this where it is unclear where the data corruption is.
								Pavel
-- 
I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care."
Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org

  reply	other threads:[~2001-09-16 19:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-15  8:46 ext2fs corruption again Kristian
2001-09-15 12:42 ` David Weinehall
2001-09-15 17:19   ` David Rees
2001-09-15 17:55     ` Kristian Peters
2001-09-15 22:19   ` Pavel Machek
2001-09-15 23:51     ` Andreas Dilger
2001-09-16 19:33       ` Pavel Machek [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-09-15 10:44 Kristian
2001-09-15 11:14 Kristian Peters
2001-09-15 12:21 ` Roeland Th. Jansen
2001-09-15 14:49   ` Kristian
2001-09-15 21:04     ` Mike Fedyk
2001-09-15 15:48 ` Mohammad A. Haque
2001-09-15 16:19   ` Kristian Peters

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