From: Bruce@Pixar.com (Bruce Perens) Subject: Re: EFS stable enough? Date: 9 Feb 1993 21:32:06 GMT
In article <1993Feb8.113853.15998@netcom.com> jsteele@netcom.com (John
Steele) writes:
> I've asked in this group about fs's that will successfully
> handle an ESDI disk, but have recieved no replies. Anyone?
The type of disk drive does not matter, since the file system is a layer
on top of the device driver. The file system doesn't care if your drive
is SCSI, ESDI, IDE, MFM, etc., it just treats the disk driver as a source
of raw disk blocks and lets the driver handle the details.
I've been using EFS for a month or two without problems. In fact I've
had no errors for EFSCK to fix, even though I've put the system through
improper shutdowns.
I suspect that your problems have to do with improperly configuring the
disk partitions or geometry in FDISK, or your disk has bad blocks (which
Linux doesn't handle yet). I installed Linux on one disk with one bad spot
by building the partitions so that none of them hit the bad blocks and
leaving the bad blocks in their own unused partition. Of course, it would
be nice if Linux implemented bad block replacement or forwarding.
Bruce Perens