Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS checksums - block or file level

2007-02-01 Thread David Anderson
Victor Latushkin wrote: Richard Elling wrote: Neil Perrin wrote: ZFS checksums are at the block level. This has been causing some confusion lately, so perhaps we could say: ZFS checksums are at the file system block level, not to be confused with the disk block level or transport block level

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS checksums - block or file level

2007-02-01 Thread Victor Latushkin
Richard Elling wrote: Neil Perrin wrote: ZFS checksums are at the block level. This has been causing some confusion lately, so perhaps we could say: ZFS checksums are at the file system block level, not to be confused with the disk block level or transport block level. Saying that ZFS check

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS checksums - block or file level

2007-02-01 Thread Richard Elling
Neil Perrin wrote: ZFS checksums are at the block level. This has been causing some confusion lately, so perhaps we could say: ZFS checksums are at the file system block level, not to be confused with the disk block level or transport block level. -- richard ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS checksums - block or file level

2007-02-01 Thread Neil Perrin
ZFS checksums are at the block level. Nathan Essex wrote On 02/01/07 08:27,: I am trying to understand if zfs checksums apply at a file or a block level. We know that zfs provides end to end checksum integrity, and I assumed that when I write a file to a zfs filesystem, the checksum was calcu

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS checksums - block or file level

2007-02-01 Thread Jeremy Teo
On 2/1/07, Nathan Essex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am trying to understand if zfs checksums apply at a file or a block level. We know that zfs provides end to end checksum integrity, and I assumed that when I write a file to a zfs filesystem, the checksum was calculated at a file level, as

[zfs-discuss] ZFS checksums - block or file level

2007-02-01 Thread Nathan Essex
I am trying to understand if zfs checksums apply at a file or a block level. We know that zfs provides end to end checksum integrity, and I assumed that when I write a file to a zfs filesystem, the checksum was calculated at a file level, as opposed to say, a block level. However, I have notic