Re: Transparent compression in the FS

[Ihar 'Philips' Filipau]

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Val Henson wrote:
> >   of many kinds of hardware errors. Further analysis shows that this
> >   approach is not as risk-free as it seems at first glance."
>
>
> I'm curious if anyone has done any work on using multiple different 
> checksums?  For example, the cost of checksumming a single block with 
> multiple algorithms (sha1+md5+crc32 for a crazy example), and storing 

  With sha1 you probably have 8-9 nines reliability.
  You can improve this - but still adding nines doesn't mean it 
(reliability) becomes 100%.

  my 0.02c.

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