On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 11:13, Olaf FrÄczyk wrote: > > > Recoverability matters to me. The driver could be 10 megabyte and > > > *I* would not care. XFS seems to stand no matter how rudely the OS > > > is knocked down. > > 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. > You lost all data? Or you just had to restore them from backup? If you > didn't have a backup it is your fault not XFS one :) Well, it was a testing machine with no important data, so I could just afford to lose everything, as it was the case. > But even if you had no backup, why didn't you move your data (using dd > or something else) to another (without defects) drive, and run recovery > on new drive? I tried, but it proved more difficult than expected, since the computer was a laptop and I couldn't move the HDD to another computer. Using the distro rescue CD was useless as it's kernel didn't have XFS support. All in all, XFS recovery was a nightmare compared to ext3 recovery, for example. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
