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Subject: Re: Advanced Linux Kernel/Enterprise Linux Kernel
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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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