Re: bkbits.net down

On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 10:50:22AM +0000, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:
> Larry McVoy <[e-mail]> writes:
> 
> >The drive has bad blocks and when it hits them it goes into retry la la land,
> >so I won't know which data is bad until I hit the bad blocks.
> 
> You've learned now the hard way why integrity checks in an application
> will never be able to replace things like backups or RAID systems. 
> Maybe you want to reread the flamewar^Wthread from some time ago with
> your new knowledge.

Yeah, maybe he should buy a big fat RAID array with all the money he's
getting from Linux kernel developers.