Re: Page Checksums

From: Florian Weimer <fweimer(at)bfk(dot)de>
To: jesper(at)krogh(dot)cc
Cc: "Robert Treat" <rob(at)xzilla(dot)net>, "Jim Nasby" <jim(at)nasby(dot)net>, "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "Heikki Linnakangas" <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "Robert Haas" <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "David Fetter" <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, "Stephen Frost" <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, "Aidan Van Dyk" <aidan(at)highrise(dot)ca>, "Josh Berkus" <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, "Greg Smith" <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "Koichi Suzuki" <koichi(dot)szk(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Page Checksums
Date: 2012-01-24 08:16:46
Message-ID: 82bopt347l.fsf@mid.bfk.de
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> I would chip in and say that I would prefer sticking to well-known proved
> filesystems like xfs/ext4 and let the application do the checksumming.

Yes, that's a different way of putting my concern. If you want a proven
file system with checksumming (and an fsck), options are really quite
limited.

> And yes, I would for sure turn such functionality on if it were present.

Same here. I already use page-level checksum with Berkeley DB.

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