On Thursday 03 November 2005 21:42, Sid Boyce wrote: <snip>
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