On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 12:21:33PM -0400, Matthew Miller scripsit: > On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 12:13:02PM -0400, Graydon wrote: > > > I'm a little paranoid -- I mount the filesystem read-only, and I use > > > rsync to transfer, because it verifies file checksums after > > > transferring, which means no loss due to USB glitch or whatnot. Then > > That's a *lot* paranoid, unless you're using a 2.0 kernel or something. > > The USB transfer glitches are detected and fixed in the SCSI emulation > > of the USB-managing kernel code; despite the inevitable urk! from USB in > > a multi-gigabyte file transfer, you'll get the whole thing with a > > regular copy command. > > Fair enough. Still, the cost of the extra check is pretty low, so might as > well. :)
Note that I did not suggest that being paranoid was *bad*. :) -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
