At the advice of Marc I installed Debian Unstable on one large partition of RaiserFS and I think it indeed helped my disk to recover from a couple of hardware crashes since (power winks, toying with new hardware freeze the machine and forcing me to press the power switch).
Haven't had a problem with it since. I suspect it also helps the system to boot faster (I think a full reboot takes less than a minute). >From Beni Cherniavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 3 Mar 2003: > On 2003-03-03, Beni Cherniavsky wrote: > > > Yesterday my linux hang so that I had to reset it, then fsck failed > > and hang and then the partiotion table got broken :-(. It seems that > > there is a physical problem with the drive, it's giving "short read > > error"s. > > > Since I now need to by a new one (40GB+), could somebody advice me > what disk brands/models won't fail in short time :-). > > I'm afraid that's too OT (since linux supports pretty much all drives > ;-), so here is a related question: what measures (short of RAID) > could I use to reduce the risk of disk errors? I'm starting to be > annoyed by them, every time it takes long to recover and then not > always all is recovered... Are some filesystems (reiser?) less > fragile than others? I'd like to protect the /home are (yes, I backup > by Unison, replicating important things on several computers but I > wonder what other means exist). > > -- > Beni Cherniavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > pure virtual static warp shield (TNG++, All Good Things O-=) > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ---------- Your email is protected by Mailshell ---------- > As you requested, this email was forwarded to you by Mailshell. > Mailshell will forward your replies to this email and keep your > private email address safe. > > To unsubscribe safely and easily using Mailshell or to stop forwarding: > http://www.mailshell.com/control.html?a=blshp8bbumg87yq1j9157qv2pz6_58z35eg0 > > ReturnPath.net http://rd.mailshell.com/ad481 > Earn up to $3 for each of your friends who signs up with Mailshell! > http://rd.mailshell.com/sp5 > _______________________________________________________ The FREE service that prevents junk email http://www.mailshell.com ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
