Re: document ext3 requirements

Rob Landley
2009-01-05T19:00:54Z

On Monday 05 January 2009 05:19:13 Alan Cox wrote:
> You could of course just learn to use the functions the kernel provides.
> If you want to recover disk blocks without retrying you can do that via
> SG_IO. If you want to adjust the timeout and retry levels you can do that
> too via sysfs.

Good to know, but "my laptop hard drive just died" is not the optimal time to
learn these sorts of things.

> Alan

Rob