On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 10:44:51AM +0000, OmegaPhil wrote: > So a couple of gig still unaccountable but irrelevant. Thanks, problem > solved! Although hopefully checksumming will be allowed on nocow files > in the future as thats currently 17% of all data unprotected and will > get worse... It's not likely to happen. If you're modifying data in-place (as is the case on nodatacow files), then there's a window of vulnerability between modifying the data and modifying the checksum records during which the checksums are incorrect. This breaks the consistency guarantees of the FS. Hugo. -- Hugo Mills | Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. hugo@... carfax.org.uk | http://carfax.org.uk/ | PGP: E2AB1DE4 |
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