Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262155AbUCEB7x (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Mar 2004 20:59:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262157AbUCEB7x (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Mar 2004 20:59:53 -0500 Received: from smtp3.cwidc.net ([154.33.63.113]:24990 "EHLO smtp3.cwidc.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262155AbUCEB7v (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Mar 2004 20:59:51 -0500 Message-ID: <4047DF05.8080209@tequila.co.jp> Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 10:59:33 +0900 From: Clemens Schwaighofer Organization: Tequila \ Japan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Felipe Alfaro Solana CC: Robin Rosenberg , David Weinehall , Andrew Ho , Dax Kelson , Peter Nelson , Hans Reiser , 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> <1078309141.863.3.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com> In-Reply-To: <1078309141.863.3.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.83.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2005 Lines: 48 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: | The problem is that I couldn't save anything: the XFS volume refused to | mount and the XFS recovery tools refused to fix anything. It was just a | single disk bad block. For example in ext2/3 critical parts are | replicated several times over the volume, so there's minimal chance of | being unable to mount the volume and recover important files. just my two cents here: if you have an XFS volume, then you mostly do more than just storing your baby photos, so you should have a raid below (software or hardware) and then you don't worry about bad blocks, because a) you have a raid (probably with a hot spare drive) and b) a daly (or more often) backup. as for me I stopped using raiser, jfs or xfs at home. why? too many negative experience. bad blocks (xfs total b0rked), raiserfs (similar things) and I even didn't try jfs. with ext3 it works very well. yes I do have a crappy board with a sucky via chipset and some super super old hds, but with ext3 I had NO single problem since 6 months (heavily knocking on wood here). all those high end journaling file systems are no good for home systems in my opinion but again, those are just my little two cents here - -- Clemens Schwaighofer - IT Engineer & System Administration ========================================================== Tequila Japan, 6-17-2 Ginza Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-8167, JAPAN Tel: +81-(0)3-3545-7703 Fax: +81-(0)3-3545-7343 http://www.tequila.jp ========================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAR98FjBz/yQjBxz8RAjbtAJ9gyiy3QNak2NgsFyWGm355wshhMgCgz/5E r9ARfA4kajBAUZCLOFBi0gw= =InvR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - 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/