there is already checksumming of metadata. having a file-system option of checksumming every file's contents upon closing the write would be very convenient, too. It would only take an extra few bytes in the file descriptor, wouldn't it? It would be nice insurance against hardware corruption. zfs has it, too, I believe. just a suggestions from someone who is just an end user... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html