"Compression ate my hard drive" - MSDOS 6.0 !
I run "home built" USB external drives on my machines. Lots of storage,
not lots of money.
C
Peter Cushing wrote:
Ted Roche wrote:
Heads-up:
Slashdot post:
"MS06-049 Causing Silent Data Corruption. Uncle Mike writes "It looks
like there is a problem with the recently released MS06-049 / KB920958
patch. If you have compression activated on any folder, then the
compressed data is at risk from corruption. New files that are close
to a multiple of 4K in size will have their last 4,000 bytes or so
overwritten with 0xDF. Although this problem has been reported to
Microsoft, as yet there appears to have been no official announcement.
"
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/21144036/article.pl
Not really ever had a need to turn on compression and for the
following reasons:
- I didn't trust it (even more so now)
- It must surely degrade performance as the OS must uncompress things
as you need to use them.
- Hard disk space is very cheap - Don't be a tight wad and buy a new
disk.
Just my .02 ;-)
Peter
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