[Gluster-users] Giving up [ was: Re: read-subvolume]

[Brian Candler]

On 10/07/2013 13:58, Jeff Darcy wrote:
>
>> 2d. it needs a fast validation scanner which verifies that data is where
>> it should be and is identical everywhere (md5sum).
>
> How fast is fast?  What would be an acceptable time for such a scan on 
> a volume containing (let's say) ten million files?
>
What would be nice is if the underlying filesystem had crypto checksums 
already (I'm thinking of ZFS) and exposed this information to the upper 
layers.