Online filesystem scrubbing and repair

Posted Apr 6, 2017 17:50 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Online filesystem scrubbing and repair by fratti
Parent article: Online filesystem scrubbing and repair

Redundancy may not help here -- if the filesystem is replicated, the same bug may bite both instances in the same way.

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Posted Apr 9, 2017 15:05 UTC (Sun) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link] (2 responses)

>if the filesystem is replicated, the same bug may bite both instances

But if not the filesystem was replicated, but the files? Like, surely there is a FUSE-fs which does file-level RAID-1 ;-)

Posted Apr 10, 2017 22:30 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (1 responses)

Yeah, that would be secure against this. I think "RAIF" might be the right term :)

Posted Apr 11, 2017 0:14 UTC (Tue) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]

https://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/docs/raif/raif.ps
[From the guys that later brought about Linux's unionfs.]