On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 10:28:53AM +0100, Peter T. Breuer wrote: > If you do an md5sum on file contents and compare with a previous md5sum > run, then it will be detected provided that the error occurs in a file, > but assuming that your disk is 50% full, that is only 50% likely. "If a bit flips in the unused area of the disk and there is no one there to md5sum it, did it really flip at all?" :) Out of interest Peter could you go into some details about how you automate the md5sum of your filesystems? Obviously I can think of ways I would do it but I'm interested to hear how you have it set up first.
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