[TriLUG] Bit rot detection without ZFS/btrfs?

[Randy Barlow]

On Sun, 30 Jun 2013 22:46:19 -0400, Magnus <magnus at trilug.org> wrote:
> ZFS is doing just fine. No licensing issues.

Perhaps I should clarify that I was referring to the licensing issues  
between ZFS and the Linux kernel that make it so that ZFS can't be  
distributed together with the kernel. I am aware of ZFS On Linux[0] as  
well as the Fuse version, but at this time I'd prefer to rule those out  
for my own purposes.

I was hoping that there would be something that could be used with any  
filesystem, or perhaps with filesystems that offer extended attributes, to  
record checksums and dates for the purposes of detecting unintended  
changes. If not, it seems achievable to write something to do this.

[0] http://zfsonlinux.org/

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R