Hi Even, On Sat, 01. Mar 2014 at 12:58:20 +0100, Even Rouault wrote: > > Maybe the disk errors aren't even on the data, but on the binaries. > Eh, that would be the 0.1% case where the software isn't the cause of the > failure ;-)
hehe. but sda might be the system disk that is dying - high sector, but maybe dual boot. And if gdal binaries are not yet affected (QGIS already doesn't start anymore), I figure the probability that it will happen soon is raising with every access. Not sure if it's a must to work correctly under such circumstances, but if so [1] could be used to test. Jürgen [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1870696/simulate-a-faulty-block-device-with-read-errors -- Jürgen E. Fischer norBIT GmbH Tel. +49-4931-918175-31 Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Rheinstraße 13 Fax. +49-4931-918175-50 Software Engineer D-26506 Norden http://www.norbit.de QGIS PSC member (RM) Germany IRC: jef on FreeNode -- norBIT Gesellschaft fuer Unternehmensberatung und Informationssysteme mbH Rheinstrasse 13, 26506 Norden GF: Jelto Buurman, HR: Amtsgericht Emden, HRB 5502 _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
