Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Are linux-fs's drive-fault-tolerant by concept? | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 19 Apr 2003 23:04:36 +0100 |
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On Sad, 2003-04-19 at 18:00, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > Ok, you mean active error-recovery on reading. My basic point is the writing > case. A simple handling of write-errors from the drivers level and a retry to > write on a different location could help a lot I guess.
It would make no difference. The IDE drive firmware already knows about such things.
> Just to give some numbers: from 25 disk I bought during last half year 16 have > gone dead within the first month. This is ridiculous. Of course they are all > returned and guarantee-replaced, but it gets on ones nerves to continously > replace disks, the rate could be lowered if one could use them at least 4 > months (or upto a deadline number of bad blocks mapped by the fs - still > guarantee but fewer replacement cycles).
I'd be changing vendors and also looking at my power/heat/vibration for that level of problems. I'm sure google consider hard disks as a consumable but not the rest of us 8)
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