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Re: Enable data checksums by default

Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com> — 2025-07-31T20:42:26Z

On Thu, Jul 31, 2025 at 3:21 PM Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
wrote:

> Having checksums on does not improve data integrity...
>

Maybe not directly, but in the same way that a smoke detector does not
directly prevent fire damage. Checksums do allow you to detect problems and
fix things (esp. bad hardware) before they get worse.

Cheers,
Greg

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