On Tue 22-06-10 17:52:00, tytso@mit.edu wrote:
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> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:29:27PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> >   With metadata which get journaled it should be quite easy. JBD already
> > must know before you go and modify buffer contents - that's why
> > journal_get_write_access and friends exist. It also makes sure that your
> > data cannot be modified from the moment the buffer enters commit upto the
> > moment the commit is finished. So you can use buffer commit hook to compute
> > and store block checksum safely.
> 
> True, but we're also interested in making sure this feature can be
> used in the non-journal case as well....
  Ah, I forgot about that... Doing per-block checksums in that case would
be indeed more complicated. So computing checksum for each dquot is
probably simpler.

								Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR
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