[NBLUG/talk] More hard drive problems

[Lincoln Peters]

On Oct 3, 2005, at 9:26 AM, Bob Blick wrote:
>
> By having an array, you have dodged a bullet.
>
> At this point you have the ideal opportunity to rethink your ReiserFS
> choice. Imagine for a second that this was not in a RAID-5 array.  
> Take a
> look at the recovery tools available for ReiserFS. Take a look at how
> poorly they work. I had two hard drives fail in three months, both  
> running
> ReiserFS, and it completely blew me away how awful ReiserFS was as  
> soon as
> something breaks.

Good point.  However, the array adds up to about 500GB, almost 400GB  
of which are in use (don't ask), so unless there's a way to switch  
filesystems WITHOUT copying the entire contents of the array to  
another drive first, switching to ext3 (or any other filesystem)  
would be non-trivial.

If there is a way that doesn't involve getting another new hard disk,  
I'm open to suggestions.


Lincoln Peters
lmpeters at mac.com