From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:38:37 -0500 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <3e7b6e1bef809d34385dcee260bdb7db@coraid.com> In-Reply-To: <9001.1266527667@lunacy.ugrad.cs.cmu.edu> References: <9001.1266527667@lunacy.ugrad.cs.cmu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] pineview atom Topicbox-Message-UUID: d6d05f48-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > There is no mechanism which directly translates bit flips > to crashes! The bad case is actually a corruption which > does *not* cause a crash, but is written to disk. How indirection? executable code being turned into illegal instructions? it's not 100% efficiency but it will translate flipped bits into crashes. - erik