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Subject: [Discuss] file system checksums
From: richard.pieri at gmail.com (Richard Pieri)
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2012 16:52:47 -0400
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On 6/5/2012 4:19 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
> You could always split the Flash drive into two equal partitions and use
> them as a RAID1 set. :-)  Not only will you get the checksums you want,
> but also redundancy to repair the problem.

Except that you don't.
Hint: RAID does nothing for data integrity or consistency.

-- 
Rich P.

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