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by jandrese 2830 days ago
Yep, otherwise you aren't able to detect bit level errors unless they impact the metadata, and the metadata is a tiny fraction of your total storage.

That said, your hard drive already does block level checksumming so doing it at the FS layer is mostly redundant unless the errors are being introduced in your SATA controller or on the PCI bus.