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BitRot Protection Failure - Anything To Be Done?
12:37:25 AM 01/21/2015 Bit rot protection has detected a silent error within /data/FileHistory/Home/C52893-G/Data/$OF/18143/18144 (2015_01_15 11_11_06 UTC).jpg on /dev/sdc3 and cannot correct the er...
Skywalker wrote: Thanks for working through this. Do you have the original source of that file? Maybe we could checksum both files.
I ran an MD5 on the three copies: 1) The original, 2) The version on the NAS and 3) The version I copied from the NAS to OneDrive (linked earlier in this thread).
All three are identical.
Skywalker wrote: Also, do you get alerts every time you read that file?
No.
Skywalker wrote: If you reboot the NAS and open the file again, do you get a fresh alert?
No.
So we seem to have a false positive. Which, as StephenB points out, isn't the best of situations either.
Thanks,
Jeff Bowman
Fairbanks, Alaska
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