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Re: Lost file-system story



>> They _can_ be repaired...some of the time.

> That's totally irrellevant.

I don't think so, not when I'm replying to a claim otherwise.

> Possibilities other than zero or one are not useful in manual pages,

Then we can throw away fsck, because there is always _some_ chance the
filesystem will be irreparable.  Memory, CPUs, disks, and the
transports between them do fail, occasionally transiently.

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