Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Dec 25, 2008 12:35 -0200,
Alberto Bertogli wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 06:49:15PM -0500,
Theodore Tso wrote:
> > > I have no idea why you would need to do
manual __breads(). No doubt
> > > I'm missing some context
here.
> >
> > I'm writing (just for fun and
learning purposes) a device mapper
> > module that stores checksums on
writes and verifies them on reads. The
> > integrity metadata
(currently just the checksum) is interleaved in the
> > backing device:
one sector holding the integrity metadata for the
> > following 64 data
sectors.
> Alex and I discussed implementing checksums for ext4 using
an external device like this, and he might have some more design information for
you.
That external device could possibly be a TPM chip that can store checksums.
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