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. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks