On 27/11/2019 14:15, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: > On 2019-11-26 22:30, Christopher Staples wrote: >> will their ever be a better way to handle bad sectors ? I keep >> getting silent corruption from random bad sectors >> scrubs keep passing with out showing any errors , but if I do a >> ddrescue backup to a new drive I find the bad sectors > Zygo is correct, if there are no checksum errors, it's almost certainly > not the storage device. > > Put simply, for a media error to cause corruption without a checksum > error, all of the following need to happen at the same time: Or, of course, be using NOCOW (or other no-checksum) files.
