linux-ext4 - MD5/6? (was Re: raid is dangerous but that's secret ...)

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Date:	Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:01:26 -0500
From:	Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@....net>
To:	Linux-Ext4 <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: MD5/6? (was Re: raid is dangerous but that's secret ...)

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".)

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