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Re:Native encryption added to ZFS on Linux by erkkie on Thursday July 21, 2016 @05:11AM (#12135667)
Not only that, but I believe a bad checksum can also cause a cascade to "fix the data", causing further corruption.
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Re:Native encryption added to ZFS on Linux by the_why_of_y on Saturday July 23, 2016 @02:42PM (#12150513)
For that to happen, you would need a bad checksum and the corresponding data block to be corrupted in such a way that the corrupted data block checksums to the corrupted checksum. Given that the checksum is 256-bit, the scariest I'd call that is "possible in theory".
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