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- From: kutcha@eos.acm.rpi.edu (Phillip Rzewski)
- Subject: How stable is extended filesystem?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.232106.24407@tc.cornell.edu>
- Keywords: extfs
- Sender: news@tc.cornell.edu
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- Organization: The Voice of Fate
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 23:21:06 GMT
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- I have been fooling with Linux since the 0.96 days, and I've always seen
- these warning messages in the kernel READMEs saying "extfs not recommended
- for real use yet" and such. While I generally like having the latest and
- greatest stuff so I can be a good little tester (I am running 0.99 now),
- I generally followed these warnings because I didn't wanna be reformatting
- my hard drive every time the extfs was updated.
-
- Now I am on my way to buying a hard drive for Linux. I've spend the past
- few months living off 55 meg partition and 8 meg swap and I'm sick of it. I'm
- plunking down the cash for a 213 meg drive and I wanna give Linux a permanent
- home on it. In theory, this would seem like a good time to start fresh with
- extfs. However, I don't want to do so if it's going to mean reformatting
- later.
-
- So does anyone have a summary of how it's going? What's your suggestion?
- On a related topic, if I decide to go all 213 megs Linux, I'll still have some
- space left over on my other hard drive (the 55 megs I'm using now). Would you
- suggest going extfs with that too, or keeping some as the old style? Reasons?
-
- Thanks heaps.
-
- --
- Phillip Andrew Rzewski Internet: kutcha@acm.rpi.edu
- "Don't wait; while you're waiting, you're dying."
- --- Peter Hammill
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