Re: Page Checksums

From: Florian Weimer <fweimer(at)bfk(dot)de>
To: Robert Treat <rob(at)xzilla(dot)net>
Cc: 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 07:57:21
Message-ID: 82fwf5353y.fsf@mid.bfk.de
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* Robert Treat:

> Would it be unfair to assert that people who want checksums but aren't
> willing to pay the cost of running a filesystem that provides
> checksums aren't going to be willing to make the cost/benefit trade
> off that will be asked for? Yes, it is unfair of course, but it's
> interesting how small the camp of those using checksummed filesystems
> is.

Don't checksumming file systems currently come bundled with other
features you might not want (such as certain vendors)?

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