Re: reverting to ext2 (Was: Re: How to kill X?)

From: Monique Y. Herman (spam_at_bounceswoosh.org)
Date: 10/10/03

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Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 12:36:29 -0600

    On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 at 11:09 GMT, Tim Connors penned:
    >
    > Not a case of ext3 being crap, a case of ext3 with journalled *data*
    > being crap. Quite a nice allrounder with the other two ext3 options
    > set. And you get the same problems with all other fses when their
    > equivalent of journalled *data* was turned on (if they had such a
    > feature).

    I read that but didn't understand it. Is it that you can use ext3
    without journalling? Or is journalling data different from normal
    journalling somehow? I'm confused.

    > The comment made earlier about bad sectors when power is turned off is
    > a comments that can be made about any fs, not just ext3, and is a
    > function of what drive you are using. It affects the IBM DTLA drives,
    > because the motor slows down, but doesn't cut off the write head when
    > power is cut, so the sector gets corrupted, and the drive is not smart
    > enough to repair this upon power being reapplied, even if you try to
    > write to that sector again without reading it first. Moral of that
    > story: Stay away from IBM drives in general, given their incompetance
    > in other matters (think, IBM DeathStar, etc).

    I heard about the deathstars and told myself I'd check my model number
    "eventually." Then one day my OS started behaving *really* weirdly,
    while at the same time the hard drive started making really ...
    interesting noises. It turned out to be a deathstar. Fortunately, that
    machine wasn't being used for anything terribly important, and the drive
    was still under warranty (back when 3-year warranties were standard), so
    it was only a minor annoyance. 

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