Is there any error checking on swap?
bob prohaska
fbsd at www.zefox.net
Sun Jul 12 15:37:49 UTC 2020
On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 12:29:12AM -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> bob prohaska wrote this message on Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 20:33 -0700:
> > Is there any error checking on swap traffic, along the lines of
> > a checksum or parity test?
> >
> > Just curious what happens if a page written out is corrupted when
> > it comes back.
>
> Looks like it doesn't:
> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/vm/swap_pager.c?annotate=361965#l1389
>
Certainly nothing about parity or checksums in the comments.
All faith in the hardware, I guess....
Thanks for writing!
bob prohaska
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