Am 08.01.2013 18:35, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > Am Dienstag, 8. Januar 2013, 08:27:51 schrieb Florian Philipp: >> Am 08.01.2013 00:20, schrieb Alan McKinnon: >>> On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:11:35 +0100 >>> >>> Florian Philipp <li...@binarywings.net> wrote: >>>> Hi list! >>>> >>>> I have a use case where I am seriously concerned about bit rot [1] >>>> and I thought it might be a good idea to start looking for it in my >>>> own private stuff, too. >> >> [...] >> >>>> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_rot [...] >>> If you mean disk file corruption, then doing it file by file is a >>> colossal waste of time IMNSHO. You likely have >1,000,000 files. Are >>> you really going to md5sum each one daily? Really? >> >> Well, not daily but often enough that I likely still have a valid copy >> as a backup. > > and who guarantees that the backup is the correct file? >
That's why I wanted to store md5sum (or sha2sums). > btw, the solution is zfs and weekly scrub runs. > Seems so.
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