>Question: I am looking for real world experiance from someone on how
>well does the ReiserFS handle bad spots on a HD.  I have a disk that
>loses a 1-5 sectors a week.  M$ installs and within a week or so
crashes
>so badly that a reinstall is needed.  Ext2 just requires an e2fsck
every
>2-3 weeks to keep on top of them, tho an occaisional file is lost.  So
>does ReiserFS handle such things transparently/dynamicly?  Are there
>disk repair utilities? - are they needed for such a problem?  I
>reinstalled ext2 on this machine recently as its proven its worth in
>this case, but is ReiserFS a better choice?


No real world experience with Reiser here, but I don't think this will
work very well. What Reiser does is keep track of the changes it is
going to make, applies the changes, then marks the transaction
completed. What you are talking about is recovering lost information
from something which is supposedly already committed. These two are very
different. What you need is either a very exhaustive disk check with the
bad blocks marked out or a new HDD.

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