This patch set adds error correction support to dm-verity, which makes it possible to recover from data corruption in exchange of increased space overhead.
The feature is implemented as part of dm-verity to take advantage of the existing hash tree to improve performance and locate known erasures. Sami Tolvanen (4): dm verity: clean up duplicate hashing code dm verity: separate function for parsing opt args dm verity: add support for forward error correction dm verity: ignore zero blocks Documentation/device-mapper/verity.txt | 34 ++ drivers/md/dm-verity.c | 1004 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- 2 files changed, 892 insertions(+), 146 deletions(-) -- 2.6.0.rc2.230.g3dd15c0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
