Re: Block-level CRC checks

On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 07:05 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>  
> > All useful detection mechanisms have non-zero false positives because we
> > would rather sometimes ring the bell for no reason than to let bad
> > things through silently, as we do now.
> 
> OK, but what happens if someone gets the failure report, assumes their
> hardware is faulty and replaces it, and then gets a failure report
> again? 

They are stupid? Nobody just replaces hardware. You test it.

We can't fix stupid.

Joshua D. Drake

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