David Lang wrote: > that would only tell you that what you have is garbage (and you need to > restore from backup(, useing a ECC costs some space, but lets you > recover from some errors without having to resort to backups. ECC permits you to recover from very specific, very-limited-damage scenarios like bit errors. On modern hard drives, single-bit data corruption is very very very rare (particularly since ECC is already employed on the platter). Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Tue Aug 15 03:51:09 2006
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