From: Ron Johnson Subject: MD5/6? (was Re: raid is dangerous but that's secret ...) Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:01:26 -0500 Message-ID: <4A9C3A26.8050403@cox.net> References: <20090824212518.GF29763@elf.ucw.cz> <4A947682.2010204@redhat.com> <200908262253.17886.rob@landley.net> <4A967175.5070700@redhat.com> <20090827221319.GA1601@ucw.cz> <4A9733C1.2070904@redhat.com> <20090828064449.GA27528@elf.ucw.cz> <20090828120854.GA8153@mit.edu> <20090830075135.GA1874@ucw.cz> <20090830152023.GB23828@mit.edu> <4807377b0908311049id9a2167r937bc8447c2b3546@mail.gmail.com> <4A9C0FE2.8020607@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Linux-Ext4 Return-path: Received: from eastrmmtai114.cox.net ([68.230.240.45]:59257 "EHLO eastrmmtai114.cox.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750951AbZHaVWw (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:22:52 -0400 Received: from eastrmimpo02.cox.net ([68.1.16.120]) by eastrmmtao106.cox.net (InterMail vM.8.00.01.00 201-2244-105-20090324) with ESMTP id <20090831210128.BPFH19495.eastrmmtao106.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net> for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:01:28 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4A9C0FE2.8020607@redhat.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 2009-08-31 13:01, Ric Wheeler wrote: [snip] > > Even if you mount with barriers, MD5 does not handle barriers, so you > stand to lose a lot of data if you have a power outage. Pardon me for asking for such a seemingly obvious question, but what (besides "Message-Digest algorithm 5") is MD5? (I've always seen "multiple drive" written in the lower case "md".) -- Brawndo's got what plants crave. It's got electrolytes!