On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 12:13:02PM -0400, Graydon wrote: > > I'm a little paranoid -- I mount the filesystem read-only, and I use > > rsync to transfer, because it verifies file checksums after > > transferring, which means no loss due to USB glitch or whatnot. Then > That's a *lot* paranoid, unless you're using a 2.0 kernel or something. > The USB transfer glitches are detected and fixed in the SCSI emulation > of the USB-managing kernel code; despite the inevitable urk! from USB in > a multi-gigabyte file transfer, you'll get the whole thing with a > regular copy command.
Fair enough. Still, the cost of the extra check is pretty low, so might as well. :) -- Matthew Miller mat...@mattdm.org <http://mattdm.org/> The Definitive Pentax P-TTL Flash Model Guide: <http://pttl.mattdm.org/> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
