Is having this as a test criteria *that* burdensome? Similar to another blocker that was being proposed, maybe it's not something that _must_ be tested, but if it's known to be broken that it should block a final. Maybe I'm missing something, but unless the image is over the capacity of a DVD, what would prevent the success of an installation?
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 21:54 Ed Greshko <ed.gres...@greshko.com> wrote: > On 9/21/18 9:47 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 6:08 PM Ed Greshko <ed.gres...@greshko.com> > wrote: > >> On 9/21/18 7:42 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > >>> On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 2:47 PM Samuel Sieb <sam...@sieb.net> wrote: > >>> > >>>> That is true, but there is also a reasonable chance or losing them, > >>>> breaking them, or other random failures. When a flash drive dies, > it's > >>>> gone, very difficult to recover if even possible. I would not > recommend > >>>> a flash drive (or DVD) alone for long-term storage. > >>> All CD and DVD consumer burnable (R or RW) are not suitable for long > >>> term storage. The dyes used are not gonna very long, maybe a few > >>> years. If they're kept in the dark at stable temperature, I'd be > >>> surprised if they lasted 5 years. Bluray is a different story, and > >>> with proper storage shows some promise of being readable for quite a > >>> while, but you're gonna have to put a drive, cables, and a computer > >>> into cold storage along with the discs so... good luck. > >>> > >> FWIW, I think I must be very lucky. I have just checked several of my > TDK DVD-RW > >> disks that were written between 2003 and 2005. > >> I'd forgotten all about them until reading this. They've been sitting > on the top of > >> a cabinet that is exposed to indirect sunlight and temp ranges of > >> between the 60's and 80's and high humidity. (I fight with my wife > about the A/C in > >> the summer). > >> > >> All of them read just fine. Which is good since I'd been looking for > the photos of > >> one of our departed cats which were "lost" due to an HD failure. > > Yes, lucky. Make copies, quick! > > > > Well, since I did forget about them and it has been 15 years (3X your > upper end > estimate) I don't think they are that important. I'll > check them again in another 15 years. If I have a DVD drive at that > time. :-) > > -- > Cardinal Rule of Presentations: "Tell them what you are going to tell > them, tell > them, then tell them what you told them." > > _______________________________________________ > test mailing list -- test@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to test-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/test@lists.fedoraproject.org >
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