On Mon, 2022-07-11 at 14:33 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > I always wondered about that "reinstall the software" thing. > > I mean, how much should I trust software from someone who > apparently is unable to just copy the software onto the disk? > > And even worse, it actually works sometimes. I'd come to a few conclusions regarding that: Silent disk errors. Things disappeared without notice while writing, and/or later on. And checkdisk was fond of just deleting files it considered faulty. Mangling of files read from disk. When you open a file, a file system can record when the file was last accessed. So what happens when it pokes the data on a file and has a crash? Can it destroy the file? (We're talking self-destructive MS file systems, here.) Why else should some .dll file disappear that *you* never had interaction with. Race conditions. Some programming flaw got in the way of some write during installation, that didn't happen during the re-installation. Although that doesn't take into account things that worked, later failed, then got fixed by a reinstall. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.71.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 28 15:37:28 UTC 2022 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
