On Sat, 2016-09-24 at 12:43 +0000, Hugo Mills wrote: > It's because you can't update the data and the checksum atomically > -- at some point in the writing process, they must be inconsistent. > This is considered a Bad Thing. It's not worse at all than simply not cheksuming... in both cases you have no guarantee whether the data is bogus or not, but in with csums, you can at least tell - only at the little cost, of false positives when the data was fully and correctly written, but the csums not. Cheers.
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