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Re: Desktop Filesystem Benchmarks in 2.6.3

To: Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Desktop Filesystem Benchmarks in 2.6.3
From: Hans Reiser <reiser@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 17:16:16 +0300
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Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:



As I said, it could have been a kernel bug, or maybe I simply didn't
understand the implications of recovery, but xfs_repair was totally
unable to fix the problem. It instructed me to use "dd" to move the
volume to a healthy disk and retry the operation, but it was not easy to
do that as I explained before.



I think that your expectation is unreasonable. XFS was designed for machines where popping in a working hard drive was feasible. Making a disk layout adaptable to any arbitrary block going bad is more work than you might think, and for their intended market (not laptops) they did the right thing. You can buy cables that allow you to connect laptop drives to desktops.
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Hans



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