I can think of all kinds of bit-rot detection algorithms in various degree of sophistication. If you google on bit-rot and linux you get results with python scripts and all.<br><br>Bit-rot restoration is something else, though. With glusterfs this could be made possible (and automated) because there are (geo) replicas.<br clear="all">
<br>Fred<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Emmanuel Dreyfus <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:manu@netbsd.org" target="_blank">manu@netbsd.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:37:22AM +0200, Fred van Zwieten wrote:<br>
> The obvious place to store the check-sums would be in the extended<br>
> attributes, but one could use a database for it.<br>
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</div>You could also check against a mtree(1) output.<br>
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Emmanuel Dreyfus<br>
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