Oracle Adds Data-integrity Code To Linux Kernel

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 11, 2008 @08:10AM from the put-your-trust-in-larry dept.

jazir1979 writes "ZDNet is reporting that Oracle has added code to the Linux kernel for ensuring data integrity. The code has been developed in partnership with Emulex and was recently accepted into the 2.6.27 kernel release." According to the article, "The code adds metadata to data at rest or in transit, to monitor whether that data has been corrupted. It helps make sure that I/O operations are valid by looking at that metadata — which acts as verification information — exchanged during data transmissions."

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Re:Terribly old news by Nick+Ives · 2008-12-11 10:06 · Score: 4, Informative

That LWN writeup is far better too though, TFA is terrible. LWN makes it clear that this adds device checksum support, i.e. if your SATA drive supports adding checksum data to blocks this patch will enable that functionality.

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Nick