Somethings Up with my Evolution Install ??

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 01:50:27PM -0400, Anthony de Boer wrote:
> It's possible that it's corruption due to dodgy hardware (a memory
> error, a hard drive corrupting data, a flaky cable somewhere),
> though usually you'd see evidence from other programs as well.
> 
> Memtest86 is the traditional thing for making sure the RAM is good.

Memtest86 is the traditional thing for making sure the ram is bad.
It can never tell you if it is good.

> I have seen files have bitrot over time, or on copy; a filesystem like
> ZFS that does checksums internally, or a sysadmin like myself being
> paranoid and tracking checksums on files, can catch that.

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Len Sorensen
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