Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion

[Edward Shishkin <edward@namesys.com>]

Hans Reiser wrote:
> Edward Shishkin wrote:
>
>
> > > How about we switch to ecc, which would help with bit rot not sector
> > > loss?
> >
> >
> > Interesting aspect.
> >
> > Yes, we can implement ECC as a special crypto transform that inflates
> > data. As I mentioned earlier, it is possible via translation of key
> > offsets with scale factor > 1.
> >
> > Of course, it is better then nothing, but anyway meta-data remains
> > ecc-unprotected, and, hence, robustness is not increased..
> >
> > Edward.
>
>
> Would you prefer to do it as a node layout plugin instead, so as to get
> the metadata?

Yes, it looks like a business of node plugin, but AFAIK, you
objected against such checks: currently only bitmap nodes have
a protection (checksum); supporting ecc-signatures is more
space/cpu expensive.

Edward.
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