[mythtv-users] Is my JFS broken ?

[John Drescher]

> I will consider  buying a new disk. It would be quite difficult to identify
> the broken bits as the filesystem resides on a logical volume built over 2
> software RAID arrays (raid1, 2 disks and raid5, 4 disks). I know this is an
> awful mess. TV shows and movies are not so important, but I am disappointed
> : the RAID was inefficient to prevent this kind of problem.
>
RAID can only prevent corruption on a higher level than the
filesystem. I mean whatever the filesystem writes to the array the
RAID will protect that but it will not prevent the filesystem from
corrupting itself or rm -rf / ...

John