2009/2/13 <f-lvm@media.mit.edu>: > For that matter, subtle hardware issues might eat the data in your > files, bit by bit, and you might never notice unless it was starting > to eat your metadata and you wondered why fsck kept finding small > errors. It depends on whether you care whether your data might have > a few bits of corruption scattered through it. Which is why ZFS was invented, and we are hoping for btrfs. You need checksums when you use pc-level rotating rust for storing data. Best Martin _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/