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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>
Date: Thu,  5 Jan 2012 09:15:29 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] venti and "contrib": RFC
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On Thu Jan  5 08:28:57 EST 2012, tlaronde@polynum.com wrote:
> 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.

sector failure != disk failure.  disk failure is generally due to the
heads &c, and generally independent of the size of the device.

- erik