Want to write to your filesystem safely? No worries, the manpage has all the latest rumors http://danluu.com/file-consistency/ …pic.twitter.com/uhGU1LAM2w
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In the fine print, they say their annualized failure rate calculation is based on a workload of 219TB/yr for a 12TB drive
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It's a little concerning that the APFS devs say data checksums are unneeded because HDs are reliable, contradicting every study on HD errorspic.twitter.com/uHNdsIwhXp
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What are you doing that's 111 columns wide?
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Resizing something to an aspect ratio that works kinda ok for twitter images :P
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*SSDs are reliable Which is why they're not releasing it for HDDs? Sounds like a terrible replacement for a general FS like HFS.
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Untrue. In one study, between 20% and 90% of drives had uncorrectable errors after 3 years of use (model dependent) https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/fast16/fast16-papers-schroeder.pdf …pic.twitter.com/hOpiRdmMkF
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NAND flash has ECC because you need it in case a couple too many electrons decide to tunnel there way to freedom.
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ah, it's just consumer data, who cares
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On the other hand, it's not uncommon for an ad-hoc verification mechanism to have its own share of shortcomings, adding noise to the formula
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It was exactly because of this that I wondered if there was a market for a tool that would take up a few extra % of your drive to do FEC
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That's sort of been done. While I'm sure there are better sources, I found this with a quick search:https://access.redhat.com/solutions/41548
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Too much kool aid apparently
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