Re: [plug] Which is better IDE raid setup?

[fooler]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian C. Sison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 6:07 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] Which is better IDE raid setup?


> > PS: Is it true that if you are using ReiserFS and your drive develops a
bad
> > block you are totally screwed?
>
> That is the _major_ complaint against reiser, to which i've not seen any
> public explanation from the team yet.  Note that it doesn't take a bad
> block to trash your system.  A memory or board problem may trigger this
> (read: CPU overheating), and it has happened to me more than once.  Total
> FS corruption.  It basically requires the windows solution to get your
> linux box up again:  reformat and reload OS.

if that the case then reiserfs must be put into scsi and not into ide disk
because modern scsi has a hardware feature of relocating bad blocks into a
good one.

fooler.

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