A system and method for emulating conventional block appended checksums on storage devices that generally do not support such checksums in a block is provided. A grouping of data sectors with one or more checksum sectors is generated. This grouping is mapped to/from a file system data structure associated...http://www.google.de/patents/US6976146?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6976146 - System and method for emulating block appended checksums on storage devices by sector stealing