Re: Anti-virus
From: Juha Siltala (jsiltala_at_gmx.net)
Date: 01/29/04
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Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 18:57:17 GMT
In article <i8jne1-e7j.ln1@news.myaccess.com.au>, Harry Phillips wrote:
> Hard disks do develop bad sectors over time, they just wear out, so my
> question now is:
>
> If I am running a server for months or even years at a time without a
> reboot or remount what makes sure the disk isn't corrupting the data it
> is saving?
No. We do backups. With data we either care about personally, or data we
have resposibility for, will never be on just some hard disk without
backups.
> Do we just hope that our vital data isn't saved to a bad sector? Do we
> umount/mount our patitions to get to to the magical number? Do we cron a
> job to umount our partition, run fsck, then remount it?
Linux is less likely to make your data dissappear than PC hardware. Being
a man who doesn't like too much change (trouble) I still suggest you use a
journalling filesystem and worry a bit less. ext3 is a good, conservative
choice instead of Reiser: we already know how it works! :)
-- Juha Siltala http://www.edu.helsinki.fi/activity/people/jsiltala/
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