Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 24 Nov 2001 20:49:21 -0800 (PST) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: Journaling pointless with today's hard disks? |
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On 24 Nov 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Followup to: <tgy9kwf02c.fsf@mercury.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> > By author: Florian Weimer <Florian.Weimer@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE> > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > > 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). > > > > No sh*t. I have always been favouring IBM drives, and I had a RAID > system with these drives bought. It will be a LONG time before I buy > another IBM drive, that's for sure. I can't believe they don't even > have the decency of saying "we fucked".
Peter,
Remember my soon to be famous quote. Everything about storage is a LIE, and that is the only true I stand by.
Andre Hedrick Linux Disk Certification Project Linux ATA Development
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