From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans Reiser Subject: Re: Desktop Filesystem Benchmarks in 2.6.3 Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 16:42:25 +0300 Message-ID: <4045E0C1.9020806@namesys.com> References: <4044119D.6050502@andrew.cmu.edu> <200403030700.57164.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> <1078307033.904.1.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com> <200403031059.26483.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <200403031059.26483.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Robin Rosenberg Cc: Felipe Alfaro Solana , David Weinehall , Andrew Ho , Dax Kelson , Peter Nelson , linux-kernel , ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, ext3-users@redhat.com, jfs-discussion@www-124.southbury.usf.ibm.com, reiserfs-list@namesys.com, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Robin Rosenberg wrote: >On Wednesday 03 March 2004 10:43, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: > > >>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