Re: Journaling pointless with today's hard disks?

From: Florian Weimer (Florian.Weimer@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE)
Date: Sat Nov 24 2001 - 14:20:11 EST


Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de> writes:

> However, if it's really true that DTLA drives and their successor
> corrupt blocks (generate bad blocks) on power loss during block writes,
> these drives are crap.

They do, even IBM admits that (on

        http://www.cooling-solutions.de/dtla-faq

you find a quote from IBM confirming this). IBM says it's okay, you
have to expect this to happen. So much for their expertise in making
hard disks. This makes me feel rather dizzy (lots of IBM drives in
use).

-- 
Florian Weimer 	                  Florian.Weimer@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE
University of Stuttgart           http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/
RUS-CERT                          +49-711-685-5973/fax +49-711-685-5898
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Fri Nov 30 2001 - 21:00:17 EST