On Thursday January 22 2015 09:40:28 Brandon Allbery wrote: > Just for one example (in the area of "complex systems"): HFS+'s hot file > support is the sort of thing that can exacerbate failing disks... and the > effect would get worse with certain kinds of changes to what files are > "hot", which might well cause it to become more evident in a newer OS > version.
I don't know if the hot file feature is what I was thinking with low level operations, but yes, it is something that could exacerbate failing disk by concentration frequent read/writes on a specific part of the disk. > again it'll be too late to save your data. (Yes, yes, have backups --- > guess what? Backups will *also* make this more obvious. So do you also I guess you mean full backups which are a way of testing the entire set of sectors in use? > disable backups because "they trigger disk errors"?) What did you think I was suggesting? I wasn't. I was asking. And yes, I do keep in mind that Apple has reasons to drive sales and incite people to buy new hardware and is probably not above tactics that decrease a product's theoretical lifetime. R. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users