Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-xfs); Wed, 03 Mar 2004 05:42:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from thebsh.namesys.com (thebsh.namesys.com [212.16.7.65]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with SMTP id i23DgWKO026247 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 05:42:32 -0800 Received: (qmail 2020 invoked from network); 3 Mar 2004 13:42:26 -0000 Received: from bitshadow.namesys.com (HELO namesys.com) (212.16.7.71) by thebsh.namesys.com with SMTP; 3 Mar 2004 13:42:26 -0000 Message-ID: <4045E0C1.9020806@namesys.com> Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 16:42:25 +0300 From: Hans Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 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 Subject: Re: Desktop Filesystem Benchmarks in 2.6.3 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> In-Reply-To: <200403031059.26483.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-archive-position: 2316 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: linux-xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com X-original-sender: reiser@namesys.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-xfs 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