Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: Are linux-fs's drive-fault-tolerant by concept? | Date | Mon, 21 Apr 2003 13:04:31 +0100 (BST) |
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> > Name an IDE or SCSI disk on sale today that doesn't retry on write > > failiure. Forget I said 'Generally do'. > > IBM DMVS18V (SCSI) > Maxtor ATA133 160 GB DiamondMax Plus. > > Maybe they _should_, but I can tell you they in fact sometimes don't > (IBM very, very seldom, Maxtor just about all the time)
How do you know those disks don't retry on write failiure? How do you know they aren't retrying and failing?
> How do _you_ know that? What makes _you_ argue for what _I_ think is > useful and _my_ sense of security? You are on thin ice ...
Linux is an open source operating system, you are welcome to add the feature if you want it.
> > We have moved on since the 1980s, and I believe that it is now up to > > the drive firmware, or the block device driver to do this, it has no > > place in a filesystem. > > Interestingly I owned one of those 30 MB MFM Seagate howling drives > back in the 80s. I had no errors on it until I threw it away for its > unbelievable noise rate. Today I throw away one (very low-noise) > disk about every week for shooting yet another fs somewhere near > midnight. > Indeed we moved on, only the direction looks sometimes questionable ...
Ask the disk manufacturers for advice.
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