Re: ext4 features

From: Bill Davidsen
Date: Thu Jul 06 2006 - 22:13:26 EST


Trond Myklebust wrote:

Nobody gives a rats arse about backups: those are infrequent and
can/should use more sophisticated techniques such as checksumming.

Actually, those of us who do run production servers care vastly about backups. And beside being utterly unscalable (checksum 20 TB of files four times a day to find what changed???), you would have to remember the checksums for all those files.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
CTO TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979

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