On 6/25/14, Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Jun 25, 2014, at 1:47 AM, Hugo Mills <hugo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> The question is, why? If you have enough disk media errors to make >> it worth using multiple copies, then your storage device is basically >> broken and needs replacing, and it can't really be relied on for very >> much longer. > Yeah basically -d dup tells me the user believes "I do not trust the media > that much". Specifically they believe the media surface variability is what > they are suspicious of, not the read/write head, actuator, or spindle, or > motor. And a.) I don't know how they can possibly have reliable information > to arrive at this kind of suspicion; b.) why bother with such crap > hardware? > Chris Murphy Does "Dup Metadata" need to tell anything to anyone? Regards, Imran -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
