Ok thank you all! 2013/1/16 Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@xxxxxxx>: > On 16.01.2013 12:23, Arno Wagner wrote: >> Hi Frederico, >> >> An alternative is to verify each write. Here you have to be careful >> to empty all buffers and caches before doing it. That is what I >> do for large files. > > My M.O. is to make MD5(*) sums of just about every file. So after i move > files around, i just verify the MD5 sums. The amount of data moved is > usually (a lot) bigger than available RAM, so i usually forgo clearing > the cache, otherwise i do a umount/mount-cycle before verifying the MD5 > sums. > > I'm doing this since a few years ago when i had trouble with a > particular USB2<->Sata chip that had a rare tendency to corrupt a > specific bit-pattern every now and then. Since then i had never any > trouble with data-corruption. > > > > *: > This case doesn't concern security, so MD5 is "good enough". > > -- > > Matthias > _______________________________________________ > dm-crypt mailing list > dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx > http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt -- Federico Foschini. _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
