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Re: "lost+found" files?

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From: Will Kemp
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:49
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Felix Karpfen wrote:

> My mileage with the ext3 filesystem was worse.  I used it (with Debian
> Woody) on an aged HD.  The HD went past its use-by date and I had a
> terrible job recovering the lost data and transferring it to a shiny
> new HD.

I don't think you can really blame that on ext3. Once the hardware stops 
working, that's it! That's why you do backups. Is xfs supposed to be 
better in that situation than ext3?

If you're that concerned about being able to recover from HDD failure, 
you should be using RAID.



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