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Date: Thu,  4 Mar 2004 15:37:47 +0100
From: Pascal Gienger <pascal.gienger@uni-konstanz.de>
To: Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org>
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Subject: Re: [Jfs-discussion] Re: Desktop Filesystem Benchmarks in 2.6.3
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Quoting Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org>:

> 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.

1. How long ago is "Once ago"? Did you report that to the xfs
developers?
2. Speaking for servers, we live in a RAID and/or SAN-world. The media
error issue is a non-issue.

Just my $0.02,

Pascal
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