Re: Desktop Filesystem Benchmarks in 2.6.3

From: Hans Reiser
Date: Wed Mar 03 2004 - 08:44:31 EST


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


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