On Thursday 03 November 2005 23:16, Dana J. Laude wrote:
On Thursday 03 November 2005 21:42, Sid Boyce wrote:
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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.
I agree. Reiser and Ext3 formats are not the problem. Another thing that can be a serious problem is cooling on the hard drives, or the system in general.
Being involved in PC hardware for 2 decades I can tell you that ALL manufactures have problems. I've had Linksys network cards fail in batches of 30+, (30 outta 50) and I've seen the same from hard drives from WD, SG, IBM, Maxtor, etc. IBM's drives bit me in the *ss , 4 failed in 7 months..., not happy.
The IBM bug bit me while running Debian unstable (ha!) about 14 months ago. I used both Reiser and ext3, but it just came back to bad hardware.
Almost *all* of these failures are related to a certain serial # or manufaturing date / batch.
As a FYI, just cause it's new doesn't mean it isn't DOA. ;)
Dana
OK, Thank you all for your comments. I think I just needed to hear from a wider sample of SuSE users that my small sample statistics is not representative of a trend. It is also comforting to know that there is no fundamental problem with the setup of my systems, with which I am otherwise very happy. I will make a note to keep the fan filters free of dust to prevent overheating. And thanks to backup, I haven't lost any data. And I will fend off cynical comments from colleagues, saying that millions of other SuSE users are not having the same problem, so it is just a wave of bad luck that will pass. Good weekend to all, Carlos -- Carlos Frederico Lange -------------------------------------------------------------------- Scientific Programmer: professional who loves to _find_ own errors.