Re: data integrity in btrfs

2011-12-30 Thread Hugo Mills
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 02:29:46PM +0100, Jaromir Zdrazil wrote: > Hi again, > >I know that ZFS include data integrity verification against data > corruption modes using propably SHA256. > >By sketchy readings at https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.html , > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Re: data integrity in btrfs

2011-12-30 Thread Kai Krakow
As long as you create your data and metadata with a mirror policy, you can use btrfs scrubbing to find and correct broken data blocks. I think latest kernels also so this "repairing" online. It works by finding a mirrored block with correct checksum if the block in question has a bad checksum.

data integrity in btrfs

2011-12-30 Thread Jaromir Zdrazil
Hi again, I know that ZFS include data integrity verification against data corruption modes using propably SHA256. By sketchy readings at https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.html , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs and other sources I have found just that there is Sha32C used and that i