Hi, On Wednesday, 5 May 2021 20:48:47 CEST Mikulas Patocka wrote: > It doesn't matter if the device is discarded or not. If the metadata > constains the discard filler, dm-integrity won't check the checksum - so > the data can contain anything. > > ... > > The device after discard may contain random pattern (some SSDs really do) > - so when the metadata contains the discard filler, the data may contain > anything. So if an existing SSD is formatted with --no-wipe --data-device option and then opened with --integrity-recalculate all metadata will contain the discard filler with this patch. So then, all the current data in the drive is not checked for integrity because it contains discard filler. This means that integrity recalculation itself never takes place for existing data. Meaning that only newly written data to SSD device will actually have integrity protection. Is this correct? Cheers, -- Melvin Vermeeren Systems engineer
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