Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:30:56 GMT From: Daniel Grund <bugs@dgrund.de> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: kern/139072: zfs marked as production ready but it used a deprecated checksum algorithm Message-ID: <200909222330.n8MNUumO003118@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200909222340.n8MNe1ba088645@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 139072 >Category: kern >Synopsis: zfs marked as production ready but it used a deprecated checksum algorithm >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Sep 22 23:40:01 UTC 2009 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Daniel Grund >Release: 8.0-RC1 >Organization: - >Environment: 8.0-RC1 >Description: According to http://bitbucket.org/osunix/osunix-gate/changeset/02e1ddcc9be7/ the default ZFS checksum algorithm in FreeBSD (fletcher2) is deprecated in OpenSolaris because some data losses might be overlooked. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: fletcher4 should also be the default for FreeBSD 8.0. At least this weakness should be documented for production ready filesystem. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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