XFS a good contender. On SGIs.

XFS a good contender. On SGIs.

Posted Jul 3, 2006 23:12 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: XFS a good contender. On SGIs. by dododge
Parent article: Time for ext4?

Yes; before 2.6.15, the md driver in the kernel had no way to test arrays for read-correctness without doing a massive dd by hand or a reconstruction, and no recourse when a bad block was found but to kick the drive (bad news if reconstructing).

Neither of these are true any longer, thanks be to Neil Brown :) you're only in trouble now if you have *the same* block unreadable on enough drives.

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