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Message-ID: <20081229210537.GN4127@blitiri.com.ar>
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:05:37 -0200
From: Alberto Bertogli <albertito@...tiri.com.ar>
To: Shyam_Iyer@...l.com
Cc: dm-devel@...hat.com, Alex.Zhuravlev@....com,
linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, tytso@....EDU,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] Re: jbd2 inside a device mapper module
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:50:14AM +0530, Shyam_Iyer@...l.com wrote:
> Andreas Dilger wrote:
> > 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.
>
>
> That external device could possibly be a TPM chip that can store
> checksums.
Thanks for the suggestion. The code I have at the moment (without the
journal stuff) already has the capability of storing checksums in a
different device. It's one of the reasons why I would prefer to avoid
using jbd.
I think I'll go with the "two metadatas" approach and see how it goes.
Worst case scenario is that I have to drop that code, which means to be
back where I am now, only with one less option.
Thanks,
Alberto
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