Dana J. Laude wrote: <STUFF DELETED>
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.
They didn't unjustly get the tag "IBM DeathStar". Regards Sid.
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
PC hardware is still designed for cheap so diagnostics hardly exist and resilience hasn't yet been dreamt of. 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