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Message-id: <20081227200127.GX5000@webber.adilger.int>
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 13:01:27 -0700
From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>
To: Alberto Bertogli <albertito@...tiri.com.ar>,
Alex Zhuravlev <Alex.Zhuravlev@....com>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@....EDU>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dm-devel@...hat.com
Subject: Re: jbd2 inside a device mapper module
On Dec 25, 2008 12:35 -0200, Alberto Bertogli wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 06:49:15PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
> > I have no idea why you would need to do manual __breads(). No doubt
> > I'm missing some context here.
>
> I'm writing (just for fun and learning purposes) a device mapper module
> that stores checksums on writes and verifies them on reads. The
> integrity metadata (currently just the checksum) is interleaved in the
> backing device: one sector holding the integrity metadata for the
> following 64 data sectors.
Alex and I discussed implementing checksums for ext4 using an external
device like this, and he might have some more design information for
you.
Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.
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