| From: | Xavier Messersmith |
| Date: | 31 Jan 2000 at 12:32:11 |
| Subject: | Re: PFS3 |
From: Xavier Messersmith <xcaliber@xav.to>
On 31-Jan-00, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Xavier Messersmith <xcaliber@xav.to> wrote:
>>> Apart from that one should always have a backup,
>>
>> For a good few people that isn't wholly feasable, unfourtunately.
>
> Their loss. Today one usually can really buy enough hardware to make
> backups regularily.
Do you know how much SCSI harddrives cost? They're cheaper than they used to
be, granted, but eecccchhhh!
>>> 1) cause unless you have a completely failure-proof (maybe journalling -
>>> i.e. a filesystem that is programmed to expect and to handle failure)
>>
>> Like an EMP? ;-)
>
> Whats an EMP?
Electro-Magnetic Pulse, a powerful magnetic pulse that would likely blank a
harddrive, these are often caused by nuclear explosions (which would also be
annoying to be around).
>> The PFS recovery tools suck. Since I wasn't able to get the latest
>> PFSDoctor out of the upgrade I can't speak for the newer one. (I haven't
>> gotten any real help with this either, pretty clear to me that the PFS
>> people enjoy choosing their fights)
>
> The newer one should handle at least a QUICK formatted partition, a thing
> the older one did not do.
Not much use if you aren't prone to accidental quick-formatting...
>> For anything that isn't really simple I'd fall back on analyzing with
>> diskvalid and poking around with a block-editor.
>
> Not the solution for the average user ;-). But the average user can then
> send the harddisk to PFS3 company/author for repair.
Unless the problem is something like accidentally erasing your root directory,
a problem I have to deal with on two fronts myself...
(faster deleting isn't always a nice thing, especially when your recovering
ability is limited)
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