Consider the likelihood of the bitflip occuring in the critical area you targeted versus any old place in the file. The file is dominated by encoded raster info

Consider the likelihood of the bitflip occuring in the critical area you targeted versus any old place in the file. The file is dominated by encoded raster info. Most errors like the bitflips we discuss are not correlated with file locations. They're typically medium errors and the design of typical filesystems will result in something closer to uniform distribution of errors. Bus errors could perhaps be correlated with the start of activity but I think that seems uncommon.