With "modern" hardware are there currently any notable instances where a failed read of a hardware storage area block results in that missing data being filled in with something other than null bytes? For instance, if a disk swapped a bad block out of the inside of a file, or a region of a DVD goes bad. (Assuming that the software reading it can even go on beyond the failure, which is often not possible, for instance on many tapes.)
I know for instance that when reading from damaged media dd conv=sync,noerror will fill in with null bytes, but there is a lot of other software out there... Thanks, David Mathog mat...@caltech.edu Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
