ReiserFS bugchecks on external drive (was Re: USB 2.0 Drive Reliability/Stability?)
On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 13:12 -0200, Rogério Brito wrote:
> On Feb 02 2005, Joerg Johannes wrote:
> > However, I just ordered a firewire/USB 2.0 combo Hard disk, I hope the
> > firewire thingy will work better.
>
> Well, I have an HD enclosure (Pyro Dual Link Drive Kit DLX-185) with a
> regular IDE HD inside of it. The enclosure has two connectors: one is a USB
> 2.0 and the other is a Firewire port.
>
> I had problems getting filesystem corruption when I used it with the USB
> port (at the time, I didn't have a Firewire card), with the SCSI layer
> saying that the media was removed from the device (something quite weird
> indeed, as it was in the middle of an rsync and I obviously didn't mess
> with it when I was doing such copies).
>
> It was reproducible, but I didn't have the opportunity of testing it
> further and sending a proper bug report to the kernel mailing list.
>
> Now that I have a vanilla Firewire card, I can use the same drive without
> any problems. In fact, I'm using this drive with an HFS+ filesystem so that
> I can easily share data between my Mac and Linux.
kernel-source-2.6.10
I've got an external USB2/Firewire enclosure with a 60GB drive.
When the drive was formatted reiserfs, it would always puke trying
to copy large amounts (10+GB) of data at the same time. This was
whether using tar or cp.
ext3 handles it fine, though.
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