Re: [SLE] frequent hard disk failures - 9.3?
From: Sid Boyce (sboyce_at_blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: 11/04/05
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Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 04:42:29 +0000 To: suse-linux-e@suse.com
Carlos F Lange wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Since I upgraded my 2 PCs at home and 9 PCs at the university
> to SuSE 9.3 (clean install, all partitions ReiserFS) I had 4 hard
> disks either crashing or showing bad sectors. In all cases the
> failure is (I still need to confirm one case) hardware related
> and there is no apparent pattern: they were Maxtor, Western Digital (2),
> and Seagate disks, EIDE and SATA, new and old, on Intel and
> on AMD boards, so I can't pin the blame on any particular
> brand or type.
>
> But I can say that it is definitely an unusually high number of
> hard disk failures. Since I am one of only 2 in the department
> running SuSE and my colleague also had a hard disk crash
> while running 9.3, whereas the rest of the MSerfs (and a couple
> of Mac addicts) in the department may have lost one HD in
> the same period, it is starting to look bad. :(
>
> I wonder if it is just here, or if someone else also noticed higher
> number of crashes. I remember a previous thread from July,
> where people tried to blame ReiserFS and others convinced them
> it was mainly hardware. Well, hardware seems to be the case here,
> but then again, SuSE and ReiserFS were the only things in common
> among the 4 failed HDs I had in the past 4 months.
> Am I seeing things, or what?
>
> Carlos
Most SuSE/Mandriva/gentoo (I have them all) installs are reiserfs by
default, so guess under what conditions failures occur. I have had a
number of run-arounds with HD failures, some were due to bad IDE
controllers so the disks were reclaimed after swapping out the
motherboard and reformatting the drives, all others, 2 in about 2 years
have been genuine HD failures.
My bet is that if you install Fedora core which is ext3, you'd have the
same problems. I shot down reiserfs as the cause the last time the issue
was raised on the grounds that if reiserfs was that bad, the kernel
mailing list would be full of complaints, customers would be frothing at
the mouth and RedHat/Fedora/Windows would be replacing the other distros
in short order.
Regards
Sid.
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