To search disk drives. On Tue, 9 Jun 2020, Nicolas George wrote: > Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2020 14:27:46 > From: Nicolas George <geo...@nsup.org> > Reply-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > To: Jude DaShiell <jdash...@panix.com> > Cc: l0f...@tuta.io, Debian User <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > Subject: Re: How long will this take? > > Jude DaShiell (12020-06-09): > > High security operations do this routinely. They properly don't trust > > parts are as labeled from manufacturers especially manufacturers that > > send any of their stuff or get any of their stuff from China. > > There is no trust to have. The previous contents would be overwritten on > the first actual write of a file. > > And if the filesystem reads a sector that has never been written, that's > a serious bug in the operating system. > > > I'm thinking of the binary search method and am wondering if disk > > operations of all sorts could be speeded up using it rather than > > sequential searches. Or is binary already used now? > > To search what? > > Regards, > >
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