On 2011-01-27 06.02, Ted Unangst wrote:
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 10:00 PM, Amit Kulkarni amitk...@gmail.com wrote:
pardon my ignorance but if you restored your data already, why bother
investigating disk failure?
Unless they are all the same person, there seems to be a sudden rash
of people
On 2011-01-27 14.11, Ted Unangst wrote:
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 7:28 AM, Benny Lofgren bl-li...@lofgren.biz wrote:
It's a matter of uptime.
The indicated behaviour, that the system more or less freezes when
encountering a simple sector read error is indeed disturbing. For
example, my own
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 7:28 AM, Benny Lofgren bl-li...@lofgren.biz wrote:
It's a matter of uptime.
The indicated behaviour, that the system more or less freezes when
encountering a simple sector read error is indeed disturbing. For
example, my own reasons for using mirroring are exclusively
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, Gordon Ferris wrote:
We waited too long to replace the failed drive, so there were errors on
both drives in the mirror, so the data was not completely restored.
Backups were not as recent as we would have liked. Since the drive
didn't completely fail, it seemed worth
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 2:16 AM, Gordon Ferris
gordon.fer...@wfengineering.com wrote:
1. Is it normal for the operating system to freeze when accessing damaged
sectors - even if the only access is via a raw, unmounted partition? This
seems like a hardware problem to me, except that errors are
Thank you for the interest so far in my post.
I never meant to imply someone fix this now. If that's how it came across,
then I do apologize - that's not what I intended.
I am looking for more than the standard disks break, live with it answer.
I am surprised that the disk retry code
Thank you for the interest so far in my post.
I never meant to imply someone fix this now. If that's how it came across,
then I do apologize - that's not what I intended.
I am looking for more than the standard disks break, live with it answer.
I am surprised that the disk retry code
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, Gordon Ferris wrote:
2. What utilities will show which sectors are occupied by specific
files? Ideally I could specify a range of sectors and a list of files
using those sectors would be provided. It would also be nice to specify
files and be shown which sectors they
pardon my ignorance but if you restored your data already, why bother
investigating disk failure?
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Gordon Ferris
gordon.fer...@wfengineering.com wrote:
I have a disk that has failed; there seem to be damaged areas that
cause errors when specific files are
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 10:00 PM, Amit Kulkarni amitk...@gmail.com wrote:
pardon my ignorance but if you restored your data already, why bother
investigating disk failure?
Unless they are all the same person, there seems to be a sudden rash
of people who want to bring a disk back from the dead
We waited too long to replace the failed drive, so there were errors on both
drives in the mirror, so the data was not completely restored. Backups were
not as recent as we would have liked. Since the drive didn't completely fail,
it seemed worth trying to retrieve some data where possible
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