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Robin Rosenberg wrote: >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. >> >> > >What file systems work on defect media? > >As for crashed disks I rarely bothered trying to "fix" them anymore. I save >what I can and restore what's backed up and recovery tools (other than >the undo-delete ones) usually destroy what's left, but that's not unique to >XFS. Depending on how good my backups are I sometimes try the recovery >tools just to see, but that has never helped so far. > >-- robin > > > > Never attempt to recover without first dd_rescue ing to a good hard drive, and doing the recovery there on good hard drive. -- Hans - 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/ | ||||||||||||
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