Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 24 Nov 2001 14:20:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 24 Nov 2001 14:20:21 -0500 Received: from mercury.rus.uni-stuttgart.de ([129.69.1.226]:57989 "EHLO mercury.rus.uni-stuttgart.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 24 Nov 2001 14:20:15 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Journaling pointless with today's hard disks? In-Reply-To:

<20011124103642.A32278@vega.ipal.net> <20011124184119.C12133@emma1.emma.line.org> From: Florian Weimer Date: 24 Nov 2001 20:20:11 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20011124184119.C12133@emma1.emma.line.org> (Matthias Andree's message of "Sat, 24 Nov 2001 18:41:19 +0100") Message-ID: Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090001 (Oort Gnus v0.01) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Matthias Andree writes: > However, if it's really true that DTLA drives and their successor > corrupt blocks (generate bad blocks) on power loss during block writes, > these drives are crap. They do, even IBM admits that (on http://www.cooling-solutions.de/dtla-faq you find a quote from IBM confirming this). IBM says it's okay, you have to expect this to happen. So much for their expertise in making hard disks. This makes me feel rather dizzy (lots of IBM drives in use). -- Florian Weimer Florian.Weimer@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE University of Stuttgart http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/ RUS-CERT +49-711-685-5973/fax +49-711-685-5898 - 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/