Re: Improving disk reliability

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To: Tobias Weingartner <weingart@...>
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Date: Thursday, January 3, 2008 - 1:59 pm

On 2008/01/03 16:59, Tobias Weingartner wrote:

Indeed, let's try that again ...

By writing to two areas of the same disk, you can do something
to protect against one failure mode (unreadable physical sections
of the disk) at the expense of increasing the risk of others.

> 2) You'll be writing everything to two parts of the same disk, making

I mentioned software complexity but definitely overlooked the additional
seeks which are not a good thing.

Thanks for the correction.

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Re: Improving disk reliability, Tobias Weingartner, (Thu Jan 3, 12:59 pm)
Re: Improving disk reliability, Stuart Henderson, (Thu Jan 3, 1:59 pm)