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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@innominate.de>
Cc: Michael Rothwell <rothwell@holly-springs.nc.us>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Advanced Linux Kernel/Enterprise Linux Kernel
Date: 17 Nov 2000 17:58:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1u2965c4t.fsf@frodo.biederman.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200011141459.IAA413471@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil> <3A117311.8DC02909@holly-springs.nc.us> <news2mail-3A15ACE3.5BED2CA3@innominate.de>
In-Reply-To: Daniel Phillips's message of "Fri, 17 Nov 2000 23:10:43 +0100"

Daniel Phillips <news-innominate.list.linux.kernel@innominate.de> writes:

> Actually, I was planning on doing on putting in a hack to do something
> like that: calculate a checksum after every buffer data update and check
> it after write completion, to make sure nothing scribbled in the buffer
> in the interim.  This would also pick up some bad memory problems.

Be very careful that this just applies to metadata.  For normal data
this is a valid case.  Weird but valid.


Eric
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  reply	other threads:[~2000-11-18  1:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-14 14:59 Advanced Linux Kernel/Enterprise Linux Kernel Jesse Pollard
2000-11-14 15:47 ` David Weinehall
2000-11-14 17:14 ` Michael Rothwell
2000-11-14 16:20   ` Mike Dresser
2000-11-14 17:27     ` Michael Rothwell
2000-11-14 17:32       ` Michael Rothwell
2000-11-14 16:25   ` Richard B. Johnson
2000-11-14 17:29     ` Michael Rothwell
2000-11-14 16:38       ` Mark Hahn
2000-11-14 19:23         ` spam
2000-11-14 16:41       ` Richard B. Johnson
2000-11-14 17:06         ` Michael Meissner
2000-11-14 17:59           ` Richard B. Johnson
2000-11-14 17:51         ` Buddha Buck
2000-11-14 18:10         ` Michael Rothwell
2000-11-14 18:00           ` Richard B. Johnson
2000-11-15  0:31             ` Gerhard Mack
2000-11-14 20:08         ` Alexander Viro
2000-11-14 16:57       ` David Relson
2000-11-14 18:17     ` Rik van Riel
2000-11-14 19:15     ` spam
2000-11-14 16:53   ` David Relson
2000-11-14 17:06   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-14 17:55   ` Andreas Dilger
2000-11-14 18:35   ` Christoph Hellwig
2000-11-14 23:06   ` Werner Almesberger
2000-11-15  4:25   ` Albert D. Cahalan
2000-11-17 22:10   ` Daniel Phillips
2000-11-18  0:58     ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2000-11-18 20:13       ` Daniel Phillips
2000-11-18 16:40     ` Pavel Machek
2000-11-19 20:37       ` Daniel Phillips
2000-11-20 13:34         ` Pavel Machek
2000-11-14 17:34 ` Andrea Arcangeli
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-11-17  5:28 Bernd Eckenfels
2000-11-15  4:19 Marty Fouts
2000-11-14 18:20 Marty Fouts
2000-11-14 18:18 Marty Fouts
2000-11-14 18:10 Marty Fouts
2000-11-14 19:43 ` Steve VanDevender
2000-11-15  1:13   ` Leo Mauro
2000-11-14 18:06 Marty Fouts
2000-11-14 18:03 Marty Fouts
2000-11-08 20:31 [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI) richardj_moore
2000-11-13 21:56 ` Advanced Linux Kernel/Enterprise Linux Kernel Josue Emmanuel Amaro
2000-11-14  7:49   ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2000-11-14 18:33   ` lamont

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