Re: ext4 features

Alan Cox
2006-07-03T21:55:37Z

Ar Llu, 2006-07-03 am 23:01 +0200, ysgrifennodd Arjan van de Ven:
> raid is great for protecting against individual disks or sectors going
> bad. But raid, especially high performance implementations, do not
> checksum data or detect corruptions.
>
> They're different purpose with almost zero overlap in purpose or even
> goal...

Same layer though - checksums are really a device mapper type problem
rather than an fs type problem.

Alan