On Wednesday 03 March 2004 10:43, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: > 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. A single bad-block rendered the entire filesystem non-recoverable for XFS? Sounds difficult to believe since there is redundancy such as multiple copies of the superblock etc. I can believe you lost *some* data, but "lost all my data"??? -- I believe that you'd have to had had *considerably* more than "a bad block" :-) Mike _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users