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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
To: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Cc: Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org>,
	David Weinehall <david@southpole.se>,
	Andrew Ho <andrewho@animezone.org>, Dax Kelson <dax@gurulabs.com>,
	Peter Nelson <pnelson@andrew.cmu.edu>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	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
Subject: Re: Desktop Filesystem Benchmarks in 2.6.3
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 16:42:25 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4045E0C1.9020806@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200403031059.26483.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.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



  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-03-03 13:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-02  4:46 Desktop Filesystem Benchmarks in 2.6.3 Peter Nelson
2004-03-02  7:23 ` Hans Reiser
2004-03-02 16:34   ` Peter Nelson
2004-03-02 22:33     ` Dax Kelson
2004-03-02 22:47       ` David Weinehall
2004-03-03  1:30         ` Andrew Ho
2004-03-03  1:41           ` David Weinehall
     [not found]             ` <20040303014115.GP19111@khan.acc.umu.se.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2004-03-03  2:39               ` Andi Kleen
2004-03-03  7:47                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-03-03  8:03                   ` Hans Reiser
2004-03-03  8:16                     ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-03-03  9:35                       ` Hans Reiser
2004-03-03  6:00             ` Robin Rosenberg
2004-03-03  9:43               ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2004-03-03  9:59                 ` Robin Rosenberg
2004-03-03 10:19                   ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2004-03-04  9:28                     ` Kristian Köhntopp
2004-03-05  1:59                     ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2004-03-03 10:24                   ` Mike Gigante
2004-03-03 13:14                     ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2004-03-03 14:16                       ` Hans Reiser
2004-03-03 13:42                   ` Hans Reiser [this message]
2004-03-03 10:13                 ` Olaf Frączyk
2004-03-03 13:07                   ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2004-03-04 14:37                 ` [Jfs-discussion] " Pascal Gienger
2004-03-04 20:43                   ` Per Andreas Buer
2004-03-03  6:30       ` Hans Reiser
2004-03-03 23:41     ` Johannes Stezenbach
2004-03-05 18:46       ` Pavel Machek
2004-03-06  0:16       ` Chris Mason
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-03-02 17:11 Ray Lee

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