Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Wed, 1 Oct 2008, Ahmed Kamal wrote: >> So, I guess this makes them equal. How about a new "reliable NFS" protocol, >> that computes the hashes on the client side, sends it over the wire to be >> written remotely on the zfs storage node ?! > > Modern NFS runs over a TCP connection, which includes its own data > validation. This surely helps.
Less than we'd sometimes like :-) The TCP checksum isn't very strong, and we've seen corruption tied to a broken router, where the Ethernet checksum was recomputed on bad data, and the TCP checksum didn't help. It sucked. Rob T _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
