From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0963913839C for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 15:39:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 443D321C02A; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 15:38:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4587D21C2FC for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 15:37:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85DBB33D3D3 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 15:37:18 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.114 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.114 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-2.315, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=1.2, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=0.001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 1-BMUxVe3Sng for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 15:37:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BE17333D9B3 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 15:37:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TsxiU-0007kE-S9 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:37:22 +0100 Received: from p5086aa84.dip.t-dialin.net ([80.134.170.132]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:37:22 +0100 Received: from holger.hoffstaette by p5086aa84.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:37:22 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: "Holger Hoffstaette" Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Fighting bit rot Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:36:39 +0100 Organization: The Fists of the White Lotus Message-ID: References: <50EB2BF7.4040109@binarywings.net> <20130108012016.2f02c68c@khamul.example.com> <50EBCA77.8030603@binarywings.net> <20130108095510.04f84040@khamul.example.com> <50EC4660.5090208@binarywings.net> <20130108234504.08c19c9c@khamul.example.com> <20130109013726.4016dda2@khamul.example.com> <20130109103151.428615f7@khamul.example.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p5086aa84.dip.t-dialin.net User-Agent: Pan/0.13.91 (Before we let euphoria convince us we are free) X-Archives-Salt: 3e9d1063-d7cc-4e7e-975c-dd880f251d25 X-Archives-Hash: a61cde8a1bb281b8cae85c42ff24d71d On Wed, 09 Jan 2013 14:48:33 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2013-01-09, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On Wed, 9 Jan 2013 02:47:07 +0000 (UTC) > >> The data on a medium can corrupt, and it can corrupt silently for a long >> time. > > And I'm saying I've never seen that happen. Well, that's the point. http://storagemojo.com/2007/09/19/cerns-data-corruption-research/ Things are much worse than you think. -h