Tag
scrubbing
- Apr 9, 2026 Scrub Passes: Finding Latent Damage Before It Is Needed What a scrub actually reads and in what order, why it must walk metadata rather than sweep the device, and how a pass is throttled so it does not starve foreground I/O. filesystems
- Jan 26, 2025 Read-Path Verification and What Happens When a Block Fails The ordering constraints a verifying read must satisfy, the error classes a mismatch can be sorted into, and why retrying a failed checksum is usually pointless. filesystems