Re: Advanced Linux Kernel/Enterprise Linux Kernel

From: Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xmission.com)
Date: Fri Nov 17 2000 - 19:58:58 EST


Daniel Phillips <news-innominate.list.linux.kernel@innominate.de> writes:

> Actually, I was planning on doing on putting in a hack to do something
> like that: calculate a checksum after every buffer data update and check
> it after write completion, to make sure nothing scribbled in the buffer
> in the interim. This would also pick up some bad memory problems.

Be very careful that this just applies to metadata. For normal data
this is a valid case. Weird but valid.

Eric
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