Comment Re:Excellent question (Score 1) 321
Bitrot is a myth in modern times.
You state this without any substantiation as if it were a fact.
Bitrot is a myth in modern times.
You state this without any substantiation as if it were a fact.
You are assuming you started with good files.
No assumption on my part. I did start with good files.
In the submitter's case, he started with some good files, some unknown number of bad files, etc.
That's not how I read the comment. From the OP:
With the quantity of data (~2 TB at present), it's not really practical for us to examine every one of these periodically so we can manually restore them from a different copy.
That sound to me as if he wants to check the files from time to time and locate ones that have gone bad.
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Once a week, I use openssl to calculate a checksum for each file; and I write that checksum, along with the path/filename, to a file. The next week, I do the same thing, and I compare (diff) the prior checksum file with the current checksum file.
With about a terabyte of data, I've not seen any bitrot yet.
Long term, I plan to move to ZFS, as the server's disk capacity will be rising significantly.
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ya need to move beyond it.
Maybe women don't like to work with ugly nerds, maybe they're not smart enough, or maybe they just don't like it. Stop blaming everything on us,
You are the problem.
So the question remains, what do you want to do to solve the problem. Technical people like to solve problems, why can't they seem to solve this one?
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And people wonder why there are not more women in the computer industry.
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When one admits defeat, one will succumb to defeat.
With eight qualified candidates for every 10 openings
To me that means that the companies are being far too selective and / or not using screening methods that reflect positive employment outcomes.
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As google's selection process has shown, rejecting qualified candidates just because they do not do well on some obscure testing hurdles is not the way to find qualified candidates.
The PC revolution offered low cost individual machines for doing work. No sharing, no scheduling, no fixed location.
Agreed.
to access resources of greater power in numbers.
a.k.a what was once called a mainframe.
Thanks for giving another example of what I said.
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So, the PC revolution lasted 30 years, and now we're back to where we were in 1983.
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The first thing about having a productive conversation is to listen.
You learn more when you're not talking than when you are talking.
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