---------- quoting Bob Sanders ----------
> Bad drives? I don't trust drives until they've run for at least 2 wks
> after I purchase them - I've had them die in that time.
But do you think that all 3 of them are bad? Since I run a raid and do the
filesystem check over this whole array, I wonder *which* disk could be the
source of the problem.
Since they are brand new drives I would think it's Linux software raid's
fault, or ext3.
> No. I can't speak to ext3 partitions, but I've run a few XFS partitions
> and haven't seen more than 1 drive fail on a 4 disk raid, and 1 out of
> a 99 drive array (fibre channel). You might want to change the
> filesystem to RiserFS of something else a bit more robust than ext3.
Could you please explain "bit more robust" to me? Why is ext3 so bad? I use
it since years now and never ever had any problems with it. Isn't it good
for such software raid implementations like my setup? If so, then why?
> Are these drive WD per chance? If so, I'd suggest looking for some
> Samsung or Seagate drives.
No, they are brand new Seagate drives...
Thanks! Matthias
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