Re: BTRFS as image store for KVM?

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On 17 September 2015 at 18:56, Gert Menke <gert@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> MD+LVM is very close to what I want, but md has no way to cope with silent
> data corruption. So if I'd want to use a guest filesystem that has no
> checksums either, I'm out of luck.
> I'm honestly a bit confused here - isn't checksumming one of the most
> obvious things to want in a software RAID setup? Is it a feature that might
> appear in the future? Maybe I should talk to the md guys...
...
> Any comments on that? Am I missing something?

How about using file integrity checking tools for cases when the chosen
storage stack doesn't provided data checksumming.
E.g.
aide - http://aide.sourceforge.net/
cfv - http://cfv.sourceforge.net/
tripwire - http://sourceforge.net/projects/tripwire/

Don't use them, just providing options.

Mike
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