UFS2 metadata checksums

[Ivan Voras]

2009/4/24 Wes Morgan <morganw at chemikals.org>:
> On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Ivan Voras wrote:
>
>> Scott Burns wrote:
>>
>>> 2) Is there a demand for this in FreeBSD?
>>
>> Speaking for myself, I'd like it on the systems I maintain. (I'd also
>> like a sysctl to ignore the errors, just in case :) ).
>
> That's actually something ZFS could use if you ask me. In one instance I had
> some bad ram that was causing checksum errors (zfs is better than memtest
> for finding bad ram!), and I had to comment out the ECHKSUM error from the
> kernel to recover the pieces of the file that were reported corrupt.

Yes, this is my inspiration :)