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Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 11:40:11 -0200 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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To: Florian Weimer <Florian.Weimer@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE>
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Subject: Re: Journaling pointless with today's hard disks?
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On 24 Nov 2001, Florian Weimer wrote:

> In the German computer community, a statement from IBM[1] is
> circulating which describes a rather peculiar behavior of certain IBM
> IDE hard drivers (the DTLA series):

That seems more like a case of "hard drives being pointless
for people wanting to store their data" ;)

The disks which _do_ store your data right also tend to work
great with journaling; in fact, they tend to work better with
journaling if you make a habit of crashing your system by
hacking the kernel...

The article you point to seems more like a "if you value your
data, don't use IBM DTLA" thingy.

regards,

Rik
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