Re: Page Checksums

Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>

From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>
To: Robert Treat <rob@xzilla.net>
Cc: Jim Nasby <jim@nasby.net>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, David Fetter <david@fetter.org>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@highrise.ca>, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>, Koichi Suzuki <koichi.szk@gmail.com>
Date: 2012-01-24T07:57:21Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
* Robert Treat:

> Would it be unfair to assert that people who want checksums but aren't
> willing to pay the cost of running a filesystem that provides
> checksums aren't going to be willing to make the cost/benefit trade
> off that will be asked for? Yes, it is unfair of course, but it's
> interesting how small the camp of those using checksummed filesystems
> is.

Don't checksumming file systems currently come bundled with other
features you might not want (such as certain vendors)?

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