diff --git a/db.go b/db.go
index ab3d591..94f3b2b 100644
--- a/db.go
+++ b/db.go
@@ -930,20 +930,26 @@ func (db *DB) initDatabaseFile() error {
 	// Build per-page checksum map for existing pages. The database could be
 	// short compared to the page count in the header so just checksum what we
 	// can. The database may recover in applyLTX() so we'll do validation then.
-	buf := make([]byte, db.pageSize)
 	db.chksums.pages = make([]ltx.Checksum, db.PageN())
 	db.chksums.blocks = make([]ltx.Checksum, pageChksumBlock(db.PageN()))
-	for pgno := uint32(1); pgno <= db.PageN(); pgno++ {
-		offset := int64(pgno-1) * int64(db.pageSize)
-		if _, err := internal.ReadFullAt(f, buf, offset); err == io.EOF || err == io.ErrUnexpectedEOF {
-			log.Printf("database checksum ending early at page %d of %d ", pgno-1, db.PageN())
-			break
-		} else if err != nil {
-			return fmt.Errorf("read database page %d: %w", pgno, err)
-		}
 
-		chksum := ltx.ChecksumPage(pgno, buf)
-		db.setDatabasePageChecksum(pgno, chksum)
+	lastGoodPage, err := ltx.ChecksumPages(db.DatabasePath(), db.pageSize, db.PageN(), 0, db.chksums.pages)
+
+	// lastGoodPage tells us how far we got before the first error. Most likely
+	// is that we got an EOF because the db was short, in which case no
+	// subsequent checksums would have been written. To be cautious though,
+	// zero out any checksums after the last good page.
+	clear(db.chksums.pages[lastGoodPage:])
+
+	// Always overwrite the lock page as a zero checksum.
+	if lockPage := ltx.LockPgno(db.pageSize); len(db.chksums.pages) >= int(lockPage) {
+		db.chksums.pages[lockPage-1] = 0
+	}
+
+	if err == io.EOF || err == io.ErrUnexpectedEOF {
+		log.Printf("database checksum ending early at page %d of %d ", lastGoodPage, db.PageN())
+	} else if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("read database page %d: %w", lastGoodPage+1, err)
 	}
 
 	return nil
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index a4b57c9..0274794 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3 v1.14.16-0.20220918133448-90900be5db1a
 	github.com/prometheus/client_golang v1.13.0
 	github.com/superfly/litefs-go v0.0.0-20230227231337-34ea5dcf1e0b
-	github.com/superfly/ltx v0.3.13
+	github.com/superfly/ltx v0.3.14-0.20250108183450-67dadffee317
 	golang.org/x/exp v0.0.0-20230515195305-f3d0a9c9a5cc
 	golang.org/x/net v0.17.0
 	golang.org/x/sync v0.4.0
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index fc4aa9b..214139d 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -310,6 +310,8 @@ github.com/superfly/litefs-go v0.0.0-20230227231337-34ea5dcf1e0b h1:+WuhtZFB8fNd
 github.com/superfly/litefs-go v0.0.0-20230227231337-34ea5dcf1e0b/go.mod h1:h+GUx1V2s0C5nY73ZN82760eWEJrpMaiDweF31VmJKk=
 github.com/superfly/ltx v0.3.13 h1:IbuocKJ6sY2jYvZbpUGMYmTkvaLSGUderEZwmaIUmJ0=
 github.com/superfly/ltx v0.3.13/go.mod h1:ly+Dq7UVacQVEI5/b0r6j+PSNy9ibwx1yikcWAaSkhE=
+github.com/superfly/ltx v0.3.14-0.20250108183450-67dadffee317 h1:GtLIOUO6vJRSUCntnhgTRRqL+F8+MH9ZAjEh53sfvos=
+github.com/superfly/ltx v0.3.14-0.20250108183450-67dadffee317/go.mod h1:ly+Dq7UVacQVEI5/b0r6j+PSNy9ibwx1yikcWAaSkhE=
 github.com/tv42/httpunix v0.0.0-20150427012821-b75d8614f926/go.mod h1:9ESjWnEqriFuLhtthL60Sar/7RFoluCcXsuvEwTV5KM=
 github.com/tv42/httpunix v0.0.0-20191220191345-2ba4b9c3382c h1:u6SKchux2yDvFQnDHS3lPnIRmfVJ5Sxy3ao2SIdysLQ=
 github.com/tv42/httpunix v0.0.0-20191220191345-2ba4b9c3382c/go.mod h1:hzIxponao9Kjc7aWznkXaL4U4TWaDSs8zcsY4Ka08nM=