Sunday, September 15, 2024

Re: checksums to detect/correct bit-rot

On 2024-09-15, Jonathan Thornburg <dr.j.thornburg@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does OpenBSD support any file systems with built-in checksums to
> (try to) ensure metadata and/or data integrity in the face of "bit rot"
> disk (or memory/cpu/USB) errors?

No.

On 2024-09-15, Kirill A Korinsky <kirill@korins.ky> wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Sep 2024 09:12:08 +0200,
> Jonathan Thornburg <dr.j.thornburg@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> But before I reinvent the wheel, can anyone point me to software
>> which already does this? Bonus points if the software is already
>> in ports.
>>
>
> yabitrot?

yabitrot and bitrot are in ports, I think they're "build a database and
check the files" and don't have anything special to identify a good copy
on a separate disk (though hopefully there will be few enough damaged
files that it's not too much hassle to do that separately).

No comments:

Post a Comment