Jan Claeys wrote:
> The main reason (IMO) why "defrag" is not useful (anymore) is that for
> ages there hasn't been any (guaranteed) correlation between hardware
> order and software order of sectors on a disk. Defragmenting disks
> might actually fragment them more on a fysical level, and thus ca
Op maandag 08-10-2007 om 13:16 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Phillip
Susi:
> Jan Claeys wrote:
> > But I think a similar API could be used to mark & move bad sectors or
> > "lost" sectors, and that's more related to this discussion...
>
> As I said, there is no need to make such an effort because
Jan Claeys wrote:
> Ext2/ext3 suffer from fragmentation too, when available disk space gets
> low enough.
Yea that's why the defrag package was written.
> But I think a similar API could be used to mark & move bad sectors or
> "lost" sectors, and that's more related to this discussion...
As
Op woensdag 03-10-2007 om 15:35 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Phillip
Susi:
> Jan Claeys wrote:
> > About doing "live" fsck & defrag on a rw filesystem, IIRC Windows NT has
> > a system API for doing e.g. atomic "swap 2 sectors" operations; does
> > 'linux', or any of the filesystem drivers for it,
Jan Claeys wrote:
> Indeed, 'smartmontools' for hardware-defects, "fsck" for
> filesystem-defects.
>
>
> About doing "live" fsck & defrag on a rw filesystem, IIRC Windows NT has
> a system API for doing e.g. atomic "swap 2 sectors" operations; does
> 'linux', or any of the filesystem drivers for
Op dinsdag 02-10-2007 om 13:56 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Phillip
Susi:
> Jan Claeys wrote:
> > I'm not an Ubuntu developer, but if 'badblocks' looks for hardware
> > defects, it's mostly useless on most hard disks in use these days. The
> > HDD firmware does internal bad block detection & repl
Jan Claeys wrote:
> I'm not an Ubuntu developer, but if 'badblocks' looks for hardware
> defects, it's mostly useless on most hard disks in use these days. The
> HDD firmware does internal bad block detection & replacement (using
> spare blocks on the disk reserved for that purpose). So if you ca
Op maandag 01-10-2007 om 18:19 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Waldemar
Kornewald:
> Could an Ubuntu developer please explain what advantages
> and disadvantages there might be with badblocks
I'm not an Ubuntu developer, but if 'badblocks' looks for hardware
defects, it's mostly useless on most hard
Hi,
On 10/1/07, Vincenzo Ciancia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I still am convinced that fsck is _not_ the right tool for the purpose.
> Ext3 already has a journal that should (hopefully) avoid file system
> corruption due power failures. What is the point in running fsck
> periodically? If it's to
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I haven't looked at how it actually works yet, but the idea of being
able to check the filesystem and/or blocks read-only while the system
is running and only warn on error sounds fairly appealing. I imagine
the implementation could look something lik
On 01/10/2007 Waldemar Kornewald wrote:
> Did you ever use WinXP and run chkdsk from the command line? It warns
> you that it can't *correct* errors (a reboot is needed if errors are
> found), but it can at least *detect* errors on a mounted and active
> partition (even the boot partition, in case
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