Re: Failing Hard Drive, or False Alarms?
On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 02:54:45PM -0000, Greg wrote:
> I thought we said earlier that redundancy wasn't a backup, and
> vice-versa, so Bruce better have backups, no?
This raises an interesting problem: there are 30 bad sectors, these are,
presumably, inside some files that have been read. Reading them would have
caused an I/O error.
In the general operation of a machine: how aware of the causes of a program
failing would you be ? Most programs would generate some vague error message,
the system might contain something more specific.
The files that contain the 30 sectors need to be restored from backup --
hopefully they have not been modified since the last backup. How do we
determine *which* files need to be restored. I suspect this is more difficult
than it seems.
I assume that a whole file system restore is not what is wanted.
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