[email protected] wrote:
On a hard drive, the head never touches the media. There is no wear.
The magnetic writing happens across a very small air gap, and nobody's
ever found a wearout mechanism for the magnetizing part of things, so you
should be able to overwrite a single sector every rotation of the drive
(120 times a second) for the lifetime of the drive (years).
Not for disk. When we were running early MULTICS on the mighty GE-645,
paging was to a "firehose drum" which wrote either mainly or exclusively
into one part of core memory, creating enough heat (according to the
FEs) to cause very low MTBF on that box of memory.
--
Bill Davidsen <[email protected]>
Obscure bug of 2004: BASH BUFFER OVERFLOW - if bash is being run by a
normal user and is setuid root, with the "vi" line edit mode selected,
and the character set is "big5," an off-by-one errors occurs during
wildcard (glob) expansion.
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