>>>>> "Ted" == Theodore Tso <tytso@xxxxxxx> writes: Ted> How much of a disk wear factor is there with modern disk drives? Ted> The heads aren't touching the disk, and we have plenty of sectors Ted> which are constantly getting rewritten with traditional Ted> filesystems, with no ill effects as far as I know. Modern disk firmware maintains a list of write hot spots and will regularly rewrite adjacent sectors to prevent bleed. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
