Re: Advanced Linux Kernel/Enterprise Linux Kernel

[Daniel Phillips]

"Eric W. Biederman" wrote:
> 
> Daniel Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Actually, I was planning on doing on putting in a hack to do something
> > like that: calculate a checksum after every buffer data update and check
> > it after write completion, to make sure nothing scribbled in the buffer
> > in the interim.  This would also pick up some bad memory problems.
> 
> Be very careful that this just applies to metadata.  For normal data
> this is a valid case.  Weird but valid.

I'm not sure what you mean.  With the exception of mmap'd files, the
filesystem (or VFS) controls every transfer onto a buffer so... what
does that leave?

--
Daniel
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