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Message-ID: <20130514131830.GA19563@thunk.org> Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 09:18:30 -0400 From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu> To: folkert <folkert@...heusden.com> Cc: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: checksums On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:14:08AM +0200, folkert wrote: > > Is it possible to "scrub" (check/verify) (the new-) checksums in ext4? When e2fsck does a full check, it verifies the contents of all of the metadata blocks, and this includes verifying all of the checksums. > Also: is it planned to add an option to add checksums to the data as > well? That's not currently on the development roadmap; I could imagine someone deciding to design an extension to ext4 that would do this probably by storing the checksums in the indirect blocks, but no one is currently working on it. Regards, - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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