Subject: Re: /rescue, crunchgen'ed?
To: tld <tld@tld.digitalcurse.com>
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt@update.uu.se>
List: current-users
Date: 08/30/2002 14:38:32
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, tld wrote:
> Johnny Billquist wrote:
> > That will only catch physically broken sectors on devices which don't
> > automatically remap broken sectors without notice.
> Then add an MD5 check? Checksum? CRC? :)
Would be better, yes.
> > A big danger is accidental overwriting.
> Overwriting of /rescue? Uhm...
> Yes, that's possible.
Corrupted file system is not unheard of, and often a reason why things
break down. :-)
Johnny
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