Re: Are linux-fs's drive-fault-tolerant by concept?

[John Bradford]

> > > I wonder whether it would be a good idea to give the linux-fs
> > > (namely my preferred reiser and ext2 :-) some fault-tolerance.
> > 
> > Fault tollerance should be done at a lower level than the filesystem.
> 
> I know it _should_ to live in a nice and easy world. Unfortunately
> real life is different. The simple question is: you have tons of
> low-level drivers for all kinds of storage media, but you have
> comparably few filesystems. To me this sound like the preferred
> place for this type of behaviour can be fs, because all drivers
> inherit the feature if it lives in fs.

Unless you write a tar archive to the raw device :-)

John.