[H-GEN] diskcheckd

Jason Parker-Burlingham jasonp at uq.net.au
Tue Sep 24 21:29:21 EDT 2002


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Robert Kearey <mammal at optushome.com.au> writes:

> I don't like the idea of smart alec daemons that second guess the OS,
> but that's just me.

The rationale I found in the program's code (or documentation, it's
all a blur) suggested that with the sizes of disks today, one may not
find a bad sector on a disk before it's used (again).

I thought this was sufficiently compelling.
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