On Mar 9, 2011, at 2:20 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:

> All of your emails:
> Reply-To:     [email protected]
> 
> With Apple Mail when I hit Reply, I get your email address only. When I use 
> Reply All, I get yours and the list and anyone else put in the cc list. I 
> never email people on lists directly myself, I always start with Reply and if 
> that only goes to the individual, I hit reply all.
> 
> So you're welcome to figure out why you're getting double copies, the problem 
> is not on my end.

Yes it is.  You just described exactly why it happens.  You hit "reply all" and 
then do not trim the list.  Using Apple Mail inappropriately does not excuse 
you.   

Chad



> 
> Chris Murphy
> 
> 
> On Mar 9, 2011, at 2:00 PM, objectwerks inc wrote:
> 
>> Can you stop sending me double copies of every mail please Chris?  Do you 
>> know what REPLY-TO means in the headers?
>> 
>> 
>> On Mar 9, 2011, at 1:56 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
>> 
>>> Chad, I am aware of the magnitude of the problem *IF* corruption occurs in 
>>> RAID 5. That is not even remotely relevant with a conversation about the 
>>> probability of such corruption.
>>> 
>>> There appear to be two competing claims here:
>>> 
>>> 1. RAID 5 itself is well known for having silent data corruption and should 
>>> not be used.
>>> 
>>> 2. Apple sold, until very recently a Mac OS X based, hardware RAID 5 
>>> solution, supposedly honoring a "do no evil, cause not harm" philosophy.
>>> 
>>> RAID 5 is not a new thing. Silent data corruption is not a new thing. I 
>>> won't buy an argument suggesting Apple just figured this out recently and 
>>> that's one of the reasons why they killed the Xserve RAID.
>>> 
>>> Chris Murphy
>>> 
>>> On Mar 9, 2011, at 1:51 PM, objectwerks inc wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Mar 9, 2011, at 1:46 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Mar 9, 2011, at 1:35 PM, objectwerks inc wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> The integrity of the data with files after any issues such as these 
>>>>>>>> may be suspect, especially if the fileystem was on a RAID5 which is 
>>>>>>>> very well known for silent data corruption. This is why RAID5 should 
>>>>>>>> not be used.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> OK that's possibly a whole separate thread for qualifying such a 
>>>>>>> statement. Apple has a supported product that uses RAID 5. I have 
>>>>>>> clients with them and they've lost drives, and no data, and no data 
>>>>>>> corruption. And an even larger sample size exists if filesystems other 
>>>>>>> than jhfs+ are considered. RAID 5/6 are common with ext3, ext4, XFS and 
>>>>>>> other file systems without anyone suggesting RAID 5 in particular is 
>>>>>>> known for itself increasing the incidence of silent data corruption.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> There is a reason why it is called silent data corruption.   They may 
>>>>>> not know they have it.  It happens all the time and with HW raid 5 you 
>>>>>> may not even know it for a long time.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> This is the whole reason why ZFS was made.
>>>>> 
>>>>> ZFS was not made for combating this claim of RAID 5 specific silent data 
>>>>> corruption, but rather silent data corruption in general.
>>>> 
>>>> And the difference is?   You corrupt one disk in a RAID 5 array and the 
>>>> whole array is corrupted.
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> RAID 5 employs parity. RAID 1 does not, nor do conventional non-arrayed 
>>>>> jhfs+ volumes. While RAID parity is not as sophisticated at ZFS 
>>>>> checksumming, it is certainly better than nothing. So there is some error 
>>>>> detection and correction possible, so I'm not understanding how RAID 5 is 
>>>>> "well known for silent data corruption" and should not be used. I think 
>>>>> this is a rather remarkable claim.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Chris Murphy
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> If you have one disk that has silent data corruption (and parity may not 
>>>> help you at all as you calculate your new parity on the corrupted data) 
>>>> you compound it with RAID 5.
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.raidinc.com/pdf/Silent%20Data%20Corruption%20Whitepaper.pdf
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> http://boink.superatomic.com/2009/04/25/the-raid-5-write-hole/
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.google.com/#hl=en&sugexp=ldymls&xhr=t&q=raid+5+silent+data+corruption&cp=24&qe=cmFpZCA1IHNpbGVudCBjb3JydXB0aW9u&qesig=0VyEUZb1ePVXqTxPyJd8vg&pkc=AFgZ2tkTDI1HqM7fc6R1egXasC-1CNF3wT4BG5rzsZmDlr4IGBRuaMW3LWOqaaHzeI1IQlVZ2T5WTE3o3LlGRR6gLiYOy2lsHA&pf=p&sclient=psy&site=&source=hp&aq=0b&aqi=&aql=&oq=raid+5+silent+corruption&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.&fp=ef34c9a9ed856910
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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