Disk MTBF

Mike Black (mblack@csihq.com)
Thu, 13 May 1999 14:06:44 -0400

We were having some discussions on disk MTBF and somebody suggested this:

-- Have a daemon that refreshes every sector on a disk once per month

This would re-write sectors so as to decrease the probability of a read
error due to magnetic loss.

Comments anybody? Is this feasible to do?
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