On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 02:54:45PM -0000, Greg wrote: > I thought we said earlier that redundancy wasn't a backup, and > vice-versa, so Bruce better have backups, no?
This raises an interesting problem: there are 30 bad sectors, these are, presumably, inside some files that have been read. Reading them would have caused an I/O error. In the general operation of a machine: how aware of the causes of a program failing would you be ? Most programs would generate some vague error message, the system might contain something more specific. The files that contain the 30 sectors need to be restored from backup -- hopefully they have not been modified since the last backup. How do we determine *which* files need to be restored. I suspect this is more difficult than it seems. I assume that a whole file system restore is not what is wanted. -- Alain Williams Linux/GNU Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer. +44 (0) 787 668 0256 https://www.phcomp.co.uk/ Parliament Hill Computers. Registration Information: https://www.phcomp.co.uk/Contact.html #include <std_disclaimer.h>
