<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 4:29 AM, René J.V. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rjvbertin@gmail.com" target="_blank">rjvbertin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">A bit too many reports of comparable symptoms in 10.9 somehow related to disk I/O errors for my comfort zone. OS X wouldn't be doing something low level that somehow stresses the disk hardware I hope?</blockquote></div><br>Just for one example (in the area of "complex systems"): HFS+'s hot file support is the sort of thing that can exacerbate failing disks... and the effect would get worse with certain kinds of changes to what files are "hot", which might well cause it to become more evident in a newer OS version.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">And I don't think the right answer here is "simplify" because that just covers up the fact that it's failing, ensuring that when it becomes obvious again it'll be too late to save your data. (Yes, yes, have backups --- guess what? Backups will *also* make this more obvious. So do you also disable backups because "they trigger disk errors"?)<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div></div>
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