Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Mar 2002 09:35:37 -0500 | From | hatefullinuxuser@diediedi ... | Subject | Re: bkbits.net down |
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On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 10:50:22AM +0000, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: > Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com> writes: > > >The drive has bad blocks and when it hits them it goes into retry la la land, > >so I won't know which data is bad until I hit the bad blocks. > > You've learned now the hard way why integrity checks in an application > will never be able to replace things like backups or RAID systems. > Maybe you want to reread the flamewar^Wthread from some time ago with > your new knowledge.
Yeah, maybe he should buy a big fat RAID array with all the money he's getting from Linux kernel developers. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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