[clug] Apple vs Linux Ecosystem

[steve jenkin]

Alex Satrapa wrote on 20/08/10 11:29 AM:
> On 20/08/2010, at 11:08 , Steve Jenkin wrote:
> 
>> Multiple runs of 'disk repairs' later, all good. [Many hours...]
>> [Pretty scary messages from Disk Utility, too!]
> 
> Tell me you have replaced the disk? Or are you opting for the "nah, it can't break *twice*" philosophy?

Disk didn't break.
filesystem got screwed up...

This is the volume that 'Time Machine' uses.
millions of files, huge numbers of hard-links and everything is
ACL'd/extended attributes.

It's been through this problem once before.

> 
>> Advice from a Mate That Knows: get DiskWarrior.  US$100
>> A$160 <http://www.alsoft.com/Buy/index.html>
> 
> DiskWarrior or fsck are not going to solve the problem. They are tools of last resort.

Hmmmmm.

> 
> Drive breaks -> replace disk, restore from backup.

This *is* the backup.

Don't appear to be tools to migrate it somewhere else - keeping
everything intact.

> 
> DiskWarrior is for people who believe their drives won't break, and is a tool you apply to recover data after your disk has broken, because you'd prefer to spend two hours fussing with your machine rather than sitting back reading a book while your restore process runs.
> 
> Just because your file system is now working again, doesn't mean the disk is "working".

Ack.

> 
> Alex
> 


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