On Jun 25, 2014, at 1:47 AM, Hugo Mills <h...@carfax.org.uk> wrote: > > The question is, why? If you have enough disk media errors to make > it worth using multiple copies, then your storage device is basically > broken and needs replacing, and it can't really be relied on for very > much longer.
Yeah basically -d dup tells me the user believes "I do not trust the media that much". Specifically they believe the media surface variability is what they are suspicious of, not the read/write head, actuator, or spindle, or motor. And a.) I don't know how they can possibly have reliable information to arrive at this kind of suspicion; b.) why bother with such crap hardware? Chris Murphy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
