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HappMacDonaldlast Friday at 8:05 PM1 replyview on HN

I'm curious if it would make sense for write caches in RAM to just include a CRC32 on every block, to be verified as it gets written to disk.


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doubled112last Friday at 8:13 PM

Don't you have to read that data into RAM before you can generate the CRC? Which means without ECC it could get silently corrupted on the way to the cache?

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