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> I'm kind of speechless actually, both at the fact that it can do that and the fact that disk firmwares are actually so bad The Sun/Solaris ZFS folks used to
by throw0101b 3y ago
> I'm kind of speechless actually, both at the fact that it can do that and the fact that disk firmwares are actually so bad
The Sun/Solaris ZFS folks used to talk about this a lot in the early days as a way of evangelizing the idea of checksums covering everything in the file system. Bryan Cantril has given a number of talks/rants on firmware, e.g., "Zebras All the Way Down":
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE2KDzZaxvE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE2KDzZaxvE
- jorangreef 3y agoI've always loved ZFS' design decision to use checksums for end-to-end integrity all the way down, and this made an impact on TigerBeetle.