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Bruce Allen ballen at gravity.phys.uwm.edu
Fri Sep 21 12:28:17 PDT 2007


>> In any case by the end of the year I should have at least ten X4500s, and
>> can do some testing myself.  But your collection is an order of magnitude
>> larger, so you can collect much more useful statistics.  If those
>> statistics show no data corruption, then someone like myself with many
>> fewer systems can be very confident that no silent corruption is occuring.

> fsprobe is a Linux only program, it doesn't compile out of the box on 
> Solaris (even 10+). I have a simple patch to make it compile and run on 
> Solaris though, if someone is interested.

Peter, could I suggest that you incorporate Loic's patches to make fsprobe 
portable to Solaris.

Cheers,
 	Bruce



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