Using Checksums

This lesson discusses how checksums are used in disks to detect disk corruption.

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With a checksum layout decided upon, we can now proceed to actually understand how to use the checksums. When reading a block DD, the client (i.e., file system or storage controller) also reads its checksum from disk Cs(D)C_s(D), which we call the stored checksum (hence the subscript ...