Re: OT: silent data corruption reading from hard drives

On Thu, 02 Aug 2012 10:13:55 -0700
Jeff Johnson [off-list ref] wrote:

The only ways I know of to currently detect/repair silent data 
corruption are via the use of T10-DIF on SAS drives with 520-byte 
sectors and embedded per block CRCs (bytes 513-520) or via a patented 
algorithm used in a commercial Linux software RAID product 
(www.streamscale.com).

Well, you can simply use BTRFS RAID1/RAID10 (RAID5/6 to come some time soon).
It has per block checksums and auto-healing from other drive(s) if data on
some drive turns out not to match the checksums anymore.

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With respect,
Roman

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with code he could not see.
So he began to tinker,
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