[dm-devel] Re: [RFC PATCH] dm-csum: A new device mapper target that checks data integrity

[Greg Freemyer <greg freemyer gmail com>]

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Alberto Bertogli
<albertito blitiri com ar> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I'm writing this device mapper target that stores checksums on writes and
> verifies them on reads.
>
> It's not widely tested, but you can run mke2fs on it and do basic file
> operations. The to-do list is still large, and most of it can be found within
> the code.
>
> To test it, you will need to format the device using the (very rough) attached
> tool, and then create the dm device with something like:
>
>        echo 0 $SIZE csum $REALDEVICE 0 | dmsetup create $NAME
>
>
> I think it can be useful for people who want to detect data corruption and are
> either using the block layer directly or a filesystem that doesn't check data
> integrity (which are most, if not all, of the popular ones today). Maybe it
> could also be used for testing the bio-integrity extensions, although at the
> moment it's completely independent and I haven't looked much, but it's on my
> to-do list.
>
> It does NOT pretend to be useful for consistency checks for security purposes.
> Use something else if you do not want someone evil tampering with your data.
>
>
> Comments are obviously welcome. There are also some questions embedded in the
> code, if anyone cares to answer any of them, I'd really appreciate it.
>
> Thanks a lot,
>                Alberto

I have not looked at your patch, but does this tie into the integrity
logic that was added to mainline a few months ago?

I'm not sure if it should or not, but I am curious how it ties in.

Greg
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