On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 06:38:37PM +0300, guy keren wrote:
>
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Chen Shapira wrote:
>
> > Reiser? XFS? JFS?
> > any of them ready for production?
>
> those are journaling file systems. they cannot handle a disk going caput -
> only RAID levels 5 or 1 does that. you have to have redundant data in
> order to recover from data loss - no way around this.
But can't an FS be built to minimize the damage?
Minimize the amount of files crossing the disk boundaries, and make the
files which crossed boundaries with the removed disk or were fully
located on the removed disk simply disappear, gracefully handling the
situation?
(of course I'm probably only dreaming and this is irrelevant to us now
anyway)
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