On December 13, 2007 10:12:52 PM -0800 "can you guess?" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On December 13, 2007 12:51:55 PM -0800 "can you >> guess?" >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > ... >> > >> >> when the difference between an unrecoverable >> single >> >> bit error is not just >> >> 1 bit but the entire file, or corruption of an >> entire >> >> database row (etc), >> >> those small and infrequent errors are an >> "extremely >> >> big" deal. >> > >> > You are confusing unrecoverable disk errors (which >> are rare but orders of >> > magnitude more common) with otherwise >> *undetectable* errors (the >> > occurrence of which is at most once in petabytes by >> the studies I've >> > seen, rather than once in terabytes), despite my >> attempt to delineate the >> > difference clearly. >> >> No I'm not. I know exactly what you are talking >> about. > > Then you misspoke in your previous post by referring to "an unrecoverable > single bit error" rather than to "an undetected single-bit error", which > I interpreted as a misunderstanding.
I did misspeak. thanks. -frank _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
