On 10/20/2015 15:59 -0400, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote:
>>      .........
>>      With a 32-bit checksum and a 4k block (the math is easier with
>>      smaller numbers), that's 4128 bits, which means that a random
>>      single bit error will have a approximately 0.24% chance of
>>      occurring in a given bit, which translates to an approximately
>>      7.75% chance that it will occur in one of the checksum bits.  For a
>>      16k block it's smaller of course (around 1.8% I think, but that's
>>      just a guess), but it's still sufficiently statistically likely
>>      that it should be considered.
>>      .........



Last I checked, a 4 kilo-BYTE block consisted of 32768 BITs... So the
percentages should in fact be considerably smaller than that.


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