Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 14:18:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 14:18:47 -0500 Received: from bitmover.com ([192.132.92.2]:12943 "EHLO bitmover.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 14:18:34 -0500 Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 11:18:33 -0800 From: Larry McVoy To: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: bkbits.net down Message-ID: <20020329111833.B6490@work.bitmover.com> Mail-Followup-To: Larry McVoy , "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200203271853.g2RIrRv11812@work.bitmover.com> <20020327222738.B16149@work.bitmover.com> <20020328112252.F22352@work.bitmover.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 10:50:22AM +0000, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: > Larry McVoy writes: > > >The drive has bad blocks and when it hits them it goes into retry la la land, > >so I won't know which data is bad until I hit the bad blocks. > > You've learned now the hard way why integrity checks in an application > will never be able to replace things like backups or RAID systems. > Maybe you want to reread the flamewar^Wthread from some time ago with > your new knowledge. You obviously didn't read that thread. Both in the context of BitKeeper and in the context of normal data, you would have seen that we have backups, we just have backups that we can verify are correct. The repositories on bkbits.net are automirrored after each incoming event. There were a few ppc ones which were not and we're still trying to figure out why, and things like the .ssh keys were not completely backed up; we're fixing that by putting that information into a BK repository so it will just automirror like everything else. I'm not sure why you yanking my chain, it's counter productive and flat out rude after I just spent two days doing nothing but putting things back together for kernel developers. What, exactly, did you hope to accomplish? -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/