Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262456AbUCCOQW (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Mar 2004 09:16:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262453AbUCCOQW (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Mar 2004 09:16:22 -0500 Received: from thebsh.namesys.com ([212.16.7.65]:3213 "HELO thebsh.namesys.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262456AbUCCOQR (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Mar 2004 09:16:17 -0500 Message-ID: <4045E8B0.4090001@namesys.com> Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 17:16:16 +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: Felipe Alfaro Solana CC: Mike Gigante , Robin Rosenberg , 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: <1078319654.1113.10.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com> In-Reply-To: <1078319654.1113.10.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 994 Lines: 31 Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: > > >As I said, it could have been a kernel bug, or maybe I simply didn't >understand the implications of recovery, but xfs_repair was totally >unable to fix the problem. It instructed me to use "dd" to move the >volume to a healthy disk and retry the operation, but it was not easy to >do that as I explained before. > > > > > I think that your expectation is unreasonable. XFS was designed for machines where popping in a working hard drive was feasible. Making a disk layout adaptable to any arbitrary block going bad is more work than you might think, and for their intended market (not laptops) they did the right thing. You can buy cables that allow you to connect laptop drives to desktops. -- Hans - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/