Messages in this thread | | | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: Are linux-fs's drive-fault-tolerant by concept? | Date | Sat, 19 Apr 2003 21:05:59 +0100 (BST) |
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> > > I wonder whether it would be a good idea to give the linux-fs > > > (namely my preferred reiser and ext2 :-) some fault-tolerance. > > > > Fault tollerance should be done at a lower level than the filesystem. > > I know it _should_ to live in a nice and easy world. Unfortunately > real life is different. The simple question is: you have tons of > low-level drivers for all kinds of storage media, but you have > comparably few filesystems. To me this sound like the preferred > place for this type of behaviour can be fs, because all drivers > inherit the feature if it lives in fs.
Unless you write a tar archive to the raw device :-)
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