5 Feb
2021
5 Feb
'21
9:50 p.m.
On Thu, 4 Feb 2021, Will Senn wrote:
ZFS needn't be compressed, and I don't
generally do compression or
encryption unless required by law, so I can't speak from personal
experience on those use cases (others, far more experienced can). I do
know that it's truly a pain to recover from issues with either.
[...]
Thanks; I'd heard that ZFS was a compressed file system, so I stopped
right there (I had lots of experience in recovering from corrupted RK05s,
and didn't need any more trouble).
Ah, the RK05 - evil incarnate. I mean, a disk drive exposed to the air?
Out There Somewhere [tm] is a picture of a human hair compared with the
head clearance; yikes!
Once a month, our DEC ginger-beer[*] would PM our 40s, and I was most
perturbed to learn that the sole job of the internal NiCd battery was to
drag those heads back in the event of a power failure; what, you were
writing at the time? Too bad...
[*]
His surname was "Roth", so naturally his nickname was "Portnoy".
-- Dave