Re: Checksumming blocks? [was Re: the " 'official' point of view"expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion]

From: David Masover
Date: Fri Aug 04 2006 - 16:49:57 EST


Russell Leighton wrote:

Is there a recovery mechanism, or do you just be happy you know there is a problem (and go to backup)?

You probably go to backup anyway. The recovery mechanism just means you get to choose the downtime to restore from backup (if there is downtime), versus being suddenly down until you can restore.
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