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Not only that, but I believe a bad checksum can also cause a cascade to "fix the data", causing further corruption.
by erkkie 10y ago
Not only that, but I believe a bad checksum can also cause a cascade to "fix the data", causing further corruption.
- the_why_of_y 10y agoFor that to happen, you would need a bad checksum and the corresponding data block to be corrupted in such a way that the corrupted data block checksums to the corrupted checksum. Given that the checksum is 256-bit, the scariest I'd call that is "possible in theory".