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Date: Thu,  5 Jan 2012 14:28:06 +0100
From: tlaronde@polynum.com
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 02:20:34PM +0100, tlaronde@polynum.com wrote:
> And finally, didn't the increase in size of the disks, with
>no decrease
^^^^^^^^^^^^

no increase, of course. If probability of a failure for a sector is P,
increasing the number of sectors increases the probability of disk
failure.
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