On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 11:49:56PM +0300, Mihai Popescu wrote: | > Since I mentioned the likelihood of a non-recoverable disk error, | > here's a terrific paper that should make everbody sleep very poorly: | > | > "An Analysis of Data Corruption in the Storage Stack" | > http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/fast08.pdf | | They claim the paper is based on 1.53 million disk drives. | | It is interesting they were able to access such a number.
One of the authors works for Network Appliance. They are in the business of selling (and replacing) disks. Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd -- >++++++++[<++++++++++>-]<+++++++.>+++[<------>-]<.>+++[<+ +++++++++++>-]<.>++[<------------>-]<+.--------------.[-] http://www.weirdnet.nl/