RE: Utilizing a dying HD for unreliable storage

2006-09-03 Thread Dan Bar Dov
erniavsky > Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 1:22 AM > To: linux-il > Subject: Utilizing a dying HD for unreliable storage > > I have an HD that recently got some bad sectors (*). > I suspect it was facilitated by lots of bittorrent work and I'm not > sure I want to subject my new

Re: Utilizing a dying HD for unreliable storage

2006-09-02 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
Beni, can't think of a solution offhand (except for a crude partitioning-like system thru FUSE, like you proposed) but I just wanted to note this is freaky :) Beni Cherniavsky wrote: I have an HD that recently got some bad sectors (*). I suspect it was facilitated by lots of bittorrent work

Utilizing a dying HD for unreliable storage

2006-09-02 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
I have an HD that recently got some bad sectors (*). I suspect it was facilitated by lots of bittorrent work and I'm not sure I want to subject my new HD to the same fate. And anyway I don't want to throw the old away if I can use it. So I thought: bittorrent should be able to cope with any corru