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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Fighting bit rot
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:44:24
Message-Id: kck6l5$d9t$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Fighting bit rot by Holger Hoffstaette
1 On 2013-01-09, Holger Hoffstaette <holger.hoffstaette@××××××××××.com> wrote:
2 > On Wed, 09 Jan 2013 14:48:33 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
3 >
4 >> On 2013-01-09, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
5 >>> On Wed, 9 Jan 2013 02:47:07 +0000 (UTC)
6 >>
7 >>> The data on a medium can corrupt, and it can corrupt silently for a long
8 >>> time.
9 >>
10 >> And I'm saying I've never seen that happen.
11 >
12 > Well, that's the point.
13 >
14 > http://storagemojo.com/2007/09/19/cerns-data-corruption-research/
15 >
16 > Things are much worse than you think.
17
18 Apparenty so. It looks like anybody who'se not using ECC RAM, is
19 already in a pretty hopeless situation. :/
20
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