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> This is bordering on paranoia.

What? You actually think that the mere idea of a backup getting corrupted is something that is "bordering on paranoia"? Have you ever heard of redundancy or even RAID?

> If the bad sector contains a critical part of the filesystem, you're going to lose everything anyway.

Do you honestly failed to understand that the problem is actually the "lose everything" part?



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