Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Lars Ellenberg wrote: > > say, some "invalid" data is written to disk by the file system, > (because of memory corruption, implementation error, > the shade of the moon, whatever). > > how could the block device (drbd) know that this data is "invalid"? > how should it go about "fixing" it, in case it could? Checksums all the way down. Solaris' ZFS is pretty cool that way ;-). But I'm not sure that it would be a good idea for drbd to start doing things like that (although ZFS on top of drbd would be cool...perhaps someday). -- Carson