[i]My alternative OS has so far never messed up my data *without the disk failing*[/i]
How can you be so sure? My experience shows that disk start to mess up data a long time before it starts really failing. For example on my last ThinkPad, I used it 3/4 year and got strange segfault in one app. I rebooted forced fsck and viola file was corrupted due to failed sector. That was 2 years before the point I decided to change the drive under the warranty conditions... Today I rather run 2 drives in ZFS mirror configuration... I'm not sure it's safer, since I've already also seen file data corruption on it (search the forum for more info), but I still believe the guys use checksum correctly on it (if I do not get into those tricky low-space on pool conditions under which the corruption happen). Karel PS: my OS on thinkpad was Debian GNU/Linux. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
