[colug-432] Solid State Drives (was: SMART HDD Status)

Rob Funk rfunk at funknet.net
Thu Feb 23 18:17:24 EST 2012


On Thursday, February 23, 2012 06:01:56 PM Rob Stampfli wrote:
>   To my horror, I started finding discrepancies in what should be
> static files, like those in /var/cache, and they became more and more
> prevalent with each succeeding backup.  (For some reason, these errors
> seemed to cluster in /var/cache.  I found no errors at all in /bin,
> /usr/bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin, or /etc files.)  But, these bit errors were

I think you're working off a bad premise. There's no reason at all that 
/var/cache should be static files. The whole point of it being in /var is that 
it could change at any time. I don't even see a point to backing up 
/var/cache.


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