Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Journaling pointless with today's hard disks? | From | Florian Weimer <> | Date | 24 Nov 2001 20:20:11 +0100 |
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Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de> writes:
> 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).
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