Re: Desktop Filesystem Benchmarks in 2.6.3

[Hans Reiser <reiser@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robin Rosenberg wrote:

> On Wednesday 03 March 2004 10:43, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
>  
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> > But XFS easily breaks down due to media defects. Once ago I used XFS,
> > but I lost all data on one of my volumes due to a bad block on my hard
> > disk. XFS was unable to recover from the error, and the XFS recovery
> > tools were unable to deal with the error.
> >    
> What file systems work on defect media? 
>
> As for crashed disks I rarely bothered trying to "fix" them anymore. I save
> what I can and restore what's backed up and recovery tools (other than
> the undo-delete ones) usually destroy what's left, but that's not unique to
> XFS. Depending on how good my backups are I sometimes try the recovery
> tools just to see, but that has never helped so far.
>
> -- robin
>
>
>  
Never attempt to recover without first dd_rescue ing to a good hard 
drive, and doing the recovery there on good hard drive.
--
Hans