On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 04:22:36PM +0200, David Sterba wrote: > On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 06:07:51PM +0100, Hugo Mills wrote: > > If precisely one of those bitflips puts the broken key back into order > > relative to its two neighbours, we probably have a fix for the bitflip, > > and so we write it back to the FS. > > This sounds safe enough to me. I'll add the patch to integration but > before I push it further upstream I'd really like to see the bitflip fix > in action, so if you already have testing images, please let me know.
Here's the one I mostly used to test with -- it's a 32 GiB sparse full filesystem image, with a file full of zeroes in it. It has a single bitflip in the csum tree created by hand with a hex editor, and then the csum fixed up afterwards, again by hand. Hugo. [1] http://carfax.org.uk/files/temp/testfs.img.tar.gz -- === Hugo Mills: hugo@... carfax.org.uk | darksatanic.net | lug.org.uk === PGP key: 65E74AC0 from wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net or http://www.carfax.org.uk --- I don't care about "it works on my machine". We are not --- shipping your machine.
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