On Tue, 30 Sep 2008, Robert Thurlow wrote: >> Modern NFS runs over a TCP connection, which includes its own data >> validation. This surely helps. > > Less than we'd sometimes like :-) The TCP checksum isn't > very strong, and we've seen corruption tied to a broken > router, where the Ethernet checksum was recomputed on > bad data, and the TCP checksum didn't help. It sucked.
TCP does not see the router. The TCP and ethernet checksums are at completely different levels. Routers do not pass ethernet packets. They pass IP packets. Your statement does not make technical sense. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
