[geeks] Solaris 10 / OpenSolaris bits to be in next version of OSX
der Mouse
mouse at Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA
Wed Aug 9 19:35:30 CDT 2006
>> The more sinister side of this is how Sun is selling it. "Silent
>> data corruption"? What in the world is that supposed to mean?
> You've never had a shaky disk start throwing random read errors?
Not silent ones. I've had disks start returning read errors, yes, but
I don't think I've ever had one start *silently* returning bad data.
> I've had several disks over time that silently failed in WORN mode --
> write once, read never.
That's not "silent" as I understood the term to be used here. It's
quite noisy, in fact. The failure mode I take "silent data corruption"
to refer to is "write once, then read and get something different with
no error indication".
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