I am working in the area of archiving (in the true send of the word - e.g. using the OAIS reference model) electronic data for long term preservation and access. ZFS now makes magnetic disk arrays a bit more suitable for that.
Part of the archiving process is to generate checksums (I happen to use MD5), and store them with other metadata about the digital object in order to verify data integrity and demonstrate the authenticity of the digital object over time.
Wouldn’t it be helpful if there was a utility to access/read the checksum data created by ZFS, and use it for those same purposes.
Hoping to see something like that in a future release, or a command line utility that could do the same.
thanks
Brant Bady
Manager, Electronic Archives
Access and Information Management
Royal British Columbia Museum
Telephone: (250) 387-4126
Fax: (250) 387-2072
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BC Archives Web Site: http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca
RBCM Web Site: http://www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca
Mail: 675 Belleville Street
Victoria, BC
V8W 9W2
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